Title: Hoggee
First published: 2004
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.
Subjects: Fiction, History, People with disabilities, Self-confidence, Brothers, Deaf, American Sign Language, Children's fiction, Siblings, fiction, Winter, fiction, Helpfulness, fiction
Places: New York (State), Erie Canal (N.Y.)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: PZ7.M9814 Ho 2004