Set me free

Type

Book

Authors

LeZotte, Ann Clare

ISBN 13

9781338742497

Tags

Ableism, Captivity, colonialism, Colorism, family secrets, Feminism, Fourteen-year-old girls, Girls who are deaf, Language and languages, People who are deaf, racism, rescues, Social Isolation, Teenage Girls

Abstract

Three years after being kidnapping from her home in Martha's Vineyard, fourteen-year-old Mary Lambert receives a letter from Nora O'Neal, a servant in the house where she was held, who tells her of an eight-year-old girl where she is now employed whom Nora believes to be a deaf-mute, but who is being treated as insane, and asks Mary to come and teach the nameless child; a little scared, but intrigued, and bored with domestic life, Mary agrees--only to find that there is more to the child's story, and that freeing her from a world of silence and imprisonment may be more dangerous than anyone anticipated.

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