Set Me Free (Gold) (Show Me a Sign, Book 2)

A riveting standalone companion to the Schneider Family Book Award winner, Show Me a Sign by Deaf author and librarian, Ann Clare LeZotte. Three years after being kidnapped as a 'live specimen' in a cruel experiment to determine the cause of her deafness, Mary Lambert has grown weary of domestic life on Martha's Vineyard. The book received praise for being 'instantly captivating', keeping 'readers hooked until the very end', and described as a 'simultaneously touching and gripping adventure' by Kirkus Reviews. Booklist calls it 'full of adventure and twists...a gripping tale of historical fiction.' The Horn Book highlights Mary as an emerging hero and an almost larger-than-life figure who disrupts prejudices and expectations. Three years after being kidnapped and rendered a 'live specimen' in a cruel experiment to determine the cause of her deafness, fourteen year old Mary Lambert is summoned from her home in Martha's Vineyard to the mainland to teach a younger deaf girl to communicate with sign language. She can't help but wonder, Can a child of eight with no prior language be taught? Still, weary of domestic life and struggling to write as she used to, Mary pours all her passion into the pursuit of freeing this child from the prison of her isolation. But when she arrives at the manor, Mary discovers that there is much more to the girl's story -- and the circumstances of her confinement -- than she ever could have imagined. Freeing her suddenly takes on a much greater meaning -- and risk.