by Virginia Tibbs-Brelje
Gallaudet University Press, 1986
eISBN: 978-1-56368-165-3 | Cloth: 978-0-930323-14-1 | Paper: 978-0-930323-33-2
Library of Congress Classification PZ7.S4294Be 1986

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"A 1987 Outstanding Book for Young Adults"

--University of Iowa Poll

"Gustie Blaine is 15 when she contracts meningitis. After a long recovery period during which she loses the small amount of residual hearing she had seemed to retain, Gustie tries to pick up the pieces of her life. Her parents are unrealistic and over protective; her best friend rejects her; her teachers run the gamut from being convinced Gustie cannot function in the mainstream to being supportive... through a new boyfriend who has a deaf brother and sister-in-law, and through Gustie's visit with an understanding special education teacher to a class of predominately congenitally deaf students, readers are made aware of the tremendous range of difference among deaf and hard of hearing people, the ways in which they communicate and the technical aids available to them. Realistic and involving...[Young Adults] will identify with Gustie and her wish to belong; the book should touch them and be popular."

--School Library Journal

Virginia M. Scott is a writer. Like Gustie, the main character in her novel, Ms. Scott became deaf as an adolescent.

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