Whisper by Chrissie Keighery
Hardie
Grant Egmont, 2011
ISBN
9781921759321
Young
adult
’I'm
always trying to figure out what's really going on. Always having to fill in
the gaps, but never getting all the details. It's like trying to do a jigsaw
when I don't even know what the picture is, and I'm missing one of the vital
middle pieces.’ How do you know if your
friends are talking about you behind your back or if a boy likes you? They
could act innocent, but you'd know from the rumours. You'd hear the whispers.
But what if you couldn't hear those whispers anymore? What if everything you
took for granted was gone? Being a teenager is hard enough. But being a deaf
teenager? Demi lost her hearing through meningitis and has transferred to a
school for the hearing impaired. Whisper deals with the usual teenage
struggles, but with extra frustrations and challenges thrown in. The politics
of deafness are interwoven into a very readable and engaging story.
The
Invisible Hero by Elizabeth Fensham
University
of Queensland Press, 2011
ISBN
9780702238901
Young
adult
Philip is dyslexic and mildly deaf. He has
been raised by his grandmother and is treated as stupid by his classmates. Jack
Mackinnon is the star of the school and uses bullying to maintain his power.
When the class is set the task of researching heroes and villains, the social order
starts to unravel. As Philip emerges from invisibility, he is revealed to have
true courage.
My
Silent Word
by Nette Hilton
Illustrated
by Vincent Agostino
Hachette
Australia, 2009
ISBN
9781781960912
Primary
school
A lyrical description of how a deaf child
treasures her silent world and how it is changed by a cochlear implant, which
she sees at first as 'the intruder'. She shares her love of this world, and her
feelings about discovering sound. With the story addressed to the intruder in
her ear, this is a powerful narrative of confusion and, finally, acceptance.
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