Best of Friends
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Last published Tue, Oct 31, 2017
This is the story of 10-year-old Lyla Grace. Lyla was born profoundly deaf and grew up using American Sign Language with her mom and dad. She also grew up going to a School for the Deaf where everyone signed, she felt welcome and that she belonged there... After moving away from the city she grew up in, how will she do in a mainstream school? Read to find out...
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