Ages 6 to 10. Some Kids Are Deaf Lola M. Schaefer Kids who are different need to be accepted and understood. With a simple text and photographs Schaefer describes children who are deaf, their challenges and adaptations, and their everyday activities. Readers will see and learn that these kids are really not much different. Deaf kids can't hear but they use their other senses to undertake tasks like reading captions to understand television.
Some deaf kids use sign language others can lip-read and speak.
Ages 4 to 7. The likelihood of Mic's family achieving normalcy is small since he has an older sister, Stephanie, who is deaf and blind. Mic used to think of Stephanie as a best friend but now, as Mic enters adolescence, she is an embarrassment and the subject of ridicule by his classmates. She is also about to go away to a residential school which causes conflict between Mic's protective mother and his more realistic dad. As for baseball, Mic is having trouble with middle school math and his parents have said no tryouts until his math grades improve.