# Set Me Free (Show Me a Sign, Book 2) - Hardcover

by **Ann Clare Lezotte** (Author)

**A riveting standalone companion to the Schneider Family Book Award winner, _Show Me a Sign_ by Deaf author and librarian, Ann Clare LeZotte.**

"Instantly captivating...will keep readers hooked until the very end...A simultaneously touching and gripping adventure." -- _Kirkus Reviews_

"Full of adventure and twists...a gripping tale of historical fiction." -- _Booklist_

"Mary seems set to become a true hero-adventurer, an almost larger-than-life sleuth, teacher, and woman of action; and while the story's subject matter is serious in its engagement with history's ills, LeZotte conveys a sense of real enjoyment in having Mary disrupt...the prejudices and expectations of the status quo." -- _The Horn Book_

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, and even of her once beloved writing.

So when an old acquaintance summons her to an isolated manor house outside Boston to teach a young deaf girl to communicate, Mary agrees. But can a child of eight with no prior language be taught? And is Mary up to the task? With newfound purpose, Mary arrives only to discover that there is much more to the girl's story--and the circumstances of her confinement--than she ever could have imagined. Suddenly, teaching her and freeing her from the prison of her isolation, takes on much greater meaning, and peril.

Riveting and complex, delicately nuanced and fervently feminist, _Set Me Free_ is a masterful stand-alone companion to _Show Me a Sign_, and a searing exposé of ableism, racism, and colonialism that will challenge you to think differently about the dignity and capacity within every human being.

### Author Biography

Ann Clare LeZotte is a completely deaf and bilingual-bicultural (ASL/English) member of the Deaf community, and an essential voice for Deaf / HOH, disabled, and marginalized youth. She is the author of the Schneider Family Book Award-winning novel _Show Me a Sign_, which was named a best book of the year by NPR, _Kirkus Reviews_, _School Library Journal_, the New York Public Library, the Chicago Public Library, and American Indians in Children's Literature. _Set Me Free_, the acclaimed standalone companion, was hailed by _Kirkus Reviews_ as a "simultaneously touching and gripping adventure." Ann worked for many years as a youth librarian before becoming a full-time writer. She lives in Gainesville, Florida.

**Number of Pages:** 288

**Dimensions:** 1 x 8.41 x 5.8 IN

**Publication Date:** September 21, 2021

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Set Me Free

**Interest Level:** Middle Grades, 4-8

**Reading Level:** 5.2

**Point Value:** 7

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- **Price:** 18.99 USD
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