My best friend is a deaf educator for a large rural area and serves preschool through highschool students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing (HoH). She has a fairly small collection of books that she has put together for herself to share with students, and I would love to contribute and donate to her collection! I would love to hear about any books you think fit this description and basically any age is fine. Any genre, though she said it’s fun for kids to see characters in fiction and fantasy that are Deaf or HoH.
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Try this thread from a few years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/s/k09NHGsCLO
True Biz by Sara Novic (about students at a Deaf residential school)
Also there’s a good list [here](https://bookshop.org/lists/signing-worlds-deaf-and-hard-of-hearing-stories) in this disability bookshop
There’s a deaf side character in the Magnus Chase series by Rick Riordan. I second the rec for True Biz
El Deafo by Cece Bell
Being Seen by Elsa Sjunneson
After Hamelin
Five Flavors Of Dumb – one of my favorite YA hidden gems, about a Deaf high school girl trying to manage a band to rock stardom. It’s so good and I’ve never run across anyone else who’s read it.
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle might be an interesting option – the titular MC is actually mute but communicates solely through sign language.
Since you mentioned high school students as well I think it would be fun to add “A Sign of Affection” to your list. It’s a romance manga series with older teen appeal.
Main character is a Deaf freshman college student who is going to a school for hearing students for the first time (having done lower and upper schooling at a school for Deaf students). She ends up meeting a lot of new friends and getting a polyglot hearing boyfriend who learns sign language to flirt with her. It’s a very slow burn love story about (literally and metaphorical) communication.
For a younger audience I recommend “Song for a Whale” by Lynne Kelly. We’ve done that one for our tween bookclub before and I think it’s probably best for upper elementary/early middle school age.
True Biz
Alison Gervais, Anna Sortino