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“A 1987 Outstanding Book for Young Adults” --University of Iowa Poll
“Gustie Blaine is 15 when she contracts meningitis. After a long
recovery period during which she loses the small amount of residual
hearing she had seemed to retain, Gustie tries to pick up the pieces of
her life. Her parents are unrealistic and over
protective; her best friend rejects her; her teachers run the gamut from
being convinced Gustie cannot function in the mainstream to being
supportive... through a new boyfriend who has a deaf brother and
sister-in-law, and through Gustie’s visit with an understanding special
education teacher to a class of predominately congenitally deaf students,
readers are made aware of the tremendous range of difference among deaf
and hard of hearing people, the ways in which they communicate and the
technical aids available to them. Realistic and involving...[Young Adults] will
identify with Gustie and her wish to belong; the book should touch them and be
popular.” --School Library Journal Virginia M. Scott is a writer. Like Gustie, the main character in her novel, Ms. Scott became deaf as an adolescent. ISBN 0-930323-33-5, 4 ¼ x 7 paperback, 176 pages $9.95t
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