El deafo

The Resource El deafo
Label
El deafo
Statement of responsibility
Cece Bell ; color by David Lasky
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Language
eng
Summary
  • The author recounts in graphic novel format her experiences with hearing loss at a young age, including using a bulky hearing aid, learning how to lip read, and determining her "superpower."
  • "Going to school and making new friends can be tough. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles her hearing loss at a young age and her subsequent experiences with the Phonic Ear, a very powerful--and very awkward--hearing aid. The Phonic Ear gives Cece the ability to hear--sometimes things she shouldn't--but also isolates her from her classmates. She really just wants to fit in and find a true friend, someone who appreciates her as she is. After some trouble, she is finally able to harness the power of the Phonic Ear and become "El Deafo, Listener for All." And more importantly, declare a place for herself in the world and find the friend she's longed for"--
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Award
  • ALA Notable Children's Book, 2015
  • Beehive Children's Fiction Book Award (Utah), 2016.
  • Blue Hen Book Award (Delaware) for Middle Readers, Graphic Novel, 2019.
  • Bluestem Award: Illinois' Grades 3-5 Readers' Choice Award, 2017.
  • Great Lakes Great Books Award (Michigan), Grades 4-5, 2016.
  • Great Stone Face Children's Book Award (New Hampshire), 2016.
  • Keystone to Reading Book Award (Pennsylvania), Middle School level, 2016
  • Maine Student Book Award, 2016.
  • Massachusetts Children's Book Award, 2017.
  • Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award (Minnesota), Division I (Grades 3-5), 2017.
  • Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award (Minnesota), Division II (Grades 6-8), 2017.
  • Nene Award (Hawaii), 2018.
  • Notable Books for a Global Society, 2015.
  • Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards, Grades 3-6, 2016.
  • School Library Journal Best Books: Fiction, 2014
  • South Carolina Book Award, Children’s Books, 2017.
  • YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens, 2015.
  • Young Reader's Choice Award (Pacific Northwest), Junior, 2017.
Assigning source
from publisher's web site
Biography type
autobiography
Cataloging source
YDXCP
Dewey number
  • 362.4/2092
  • B
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
LC call number
HV2534.B44
LC item number
A3 2014
Literary form
non fiction
http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel
  • 2
  • 6
Nature of contents
comics graphic novels
Target audience
juvenile

Context

Context of El deafo

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