Set Me Free - 9781338742497

The Miracle Worker meets Jane Eyre in this riveting companion to the highly acclaimed Show Me a Sign by Deaf author and librarian Ann Clare LeZotte. Three years after being kidnapped and rendered a live specimen in a cruel experiment to determine the cause of her deafness, fourteen year old Mary Lambert is summoned from her home in Martha's Vineyard to the mainland to teach a younger deaf girl to communicate with sign language. She can't help but wonder, Can a child of eight with no prior language be taught? Still, weary of domestic life and struggling to write as she used to, Mary pours all her passion into the pursuit of freeing this child from the prison of her isolation. But when she arrives at the manor, Mary discovers that there is much more to the girl's story -- and the circumstances of her confinement -- than she ever could have imagined. Freeing her suddenly takes on a much greater meaning -- and risk. Stunning and heartrending, fast-paced and fiercely feminist, this searing expos of ableism and racism is a spellbinding follow-up to the groundbreaking Show Me a Sign.

Author: Ann Clare Lezotte

Publisher: Scholastic Press

Publication Date: September 21, 2021

Number of Pages: 288 pages

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover

ISBN-10: 1338742493

ISBN-13: 9781338742497