Ann Clare LeZotte

Oct 25, 2024 | nytimes.com | Ann Clare LeZotte

DEER RUN HOME, by Ann Clare LeZotteLife is spiraling out of control for 12-year-old Effie, the protagonist of Ann Clare LeZotte's "Deer Run Home."In spare, first-person free verse, we glimpse Effie's world, where social and emotional isolation is the norm. Though she is deaf and uses American Sign Language (ASL), no one in her family has learned to sign. At public school, engagement with peers and teachers is mediated through an ASL interpreter, Miss Kathy.

Aug 27, 2024 | slj.com | Ann Clare LeZotte |Emily Beasley

Gr 4-9–Effie’s first language is American Sign Language (ASL), but no one in her family takes the time to learn it. When she and her sister move in with their dad and her two best friends leave for a residential school, Effie is alone and unable to communicate fluently with anyone around her. She mourns for her neighborhood deer displaced by new construction and wonders if there is a place in the world for her as well.

Aug 17, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Ann Clare LeZotte |Soman Chainani |Iacopo Bruno

Rich and strange (and kitted out with an eye-catching cover), but stronger in the set pieces than the internal logic. Chainani works an elaborate sea change akin to Gregory Maguire’s Wicked (1995), though he leaves the waters muddied. Every four years, two children, one regarded as particularly nice and the other particularly nasty, are snatched from the village of Gavaldon by the shadowy School Master to attend the divided titular school.

Apr 12, 2024 | thebanner.org | Ann Clare LeZotte

In this standalone companion and conclusion to the Show Me a Sign trilogy—the other books are Show Me a Sign and Set Me Free—author Ann Clare LeZotte returns to the life of Mary Lambert on Martha’s Vineyard, a historical community where, from 1740 through the late 1800s, a high proportion of people were born without hearing. The community was unique in that deaf people and hearing people worked together and looked out for each other.

Nov 7, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Ann Clare LeZotte |Louis Sachar

Fans will be pleased with this third installment in a delightful series. Mary Lambert returns for a journey that takes her to London and Paris in this follow-up to Set Me Free (2021). It’s 1810 and Mary, a deaf white teenage girl, is the teacher in her village on Martha’s Vineyard. In her world, deaf and hearing people live and work together, and nearly everyone knows Martha’s Vineyard Sign Language.