![]() ![]() After attending her first ASL class with her father, Charlie quickly realizes that adjusting to her new life will not be easy. She was always enrolled in a mainstream educational setting, but under her father’s custody, Charlie is enrolled in sign language classes and River Valley School for the Deaf, where she will board. Charlie experiences a series of significant life changes due to her parents’ separation. The novel also includes inserted diagrams and informational texts regarding the conventions of ASL and facts about Deaf culture, history, and activism, both as related to the Deaf community and otherwise. Though the novel shifts points of view throughout, moving from one major character to another, Charlie is its central protagonist. Set in the fictional town of Colson, Ohio, the novel follows Charlie Serrano, a Deaf girl with newly divorced parents. ![]()
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