By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Uhlberg's memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents--and his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it.
Jackie Robinson is the new first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers--and the first black player in Major League Baseball. A young boy shares the excitement of Robinson's rookie season with his deaf father.
Each day, a young boy watches as his father goes off to work in a noisy printing factory. But the boys father only hears the machines loud pounding and rumbling as vibrations through the soles of his shoes; he is deaf. Although his father communicates with a few other deaf printers through his hands, he feels largely cut off from and ignored by ...
Lifted by the wind, a boy flies over snow-covered Brooklyn and admires its winter beauty. Includes information about the 1947 Brooklyn snowstorm, the greatest in its history.
Lemuel, one of the foolish residents of the Village of Chelm, builds a boat and sets sail for "an enchanted, magical city." Caught in a storm, Lemuel thinks he's traveled to his far-off destination, but has he really? Color illustrations accompany the text.
Mad Dog McGraw seems to be the meanest dog in the neighborhood--at least to one little boy who tries to avoid him whenever he's outside. But is Mad Dog McGraw really as mean as he seems?
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