Hoggee
By: Anna Myers.
Publisher: Walker & Co.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Brothers -- Fiction.; Self-confidence -- Fiction.; Deaf -- Fiction.; People with disabilities -- Fiction.; American Sign Language -- Fiction.; Erie Canal (N.Y.) -- Fiction.; New York (State) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Always overshadowed by his competitive older brother, especially in their work as mule drivers on the Erie Canal, fourteen-year-old Howard finally finds the courage to pursue his dreams of becoming an educator after he learns about sign language and teaches it to his deaf friend in nineteenth-century New York State.
Notes: Ages 10 to 14.