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| El Deafo |
At age four, Cece loses her hearing and must start wearing
hearing aids. The hearing aids help, but Cece must still learn to lip read in order to understand what people are
saying. Much of the time she struggles
to make sense of what's going on. This makes school and friendships challenging.
Cece just wants to be like everyone else and in many ways,
she is. She goes to sleepovers, goofs
off at school and develops a crush on Mike Miller. But Cece also has to learn to become comfortable
with her own deafness.
At school, Cece must wear special hearing aids while her
teachers wear a microphone. Cece
discovers that she can hear her teachers clearly while they wear that
microphone, no matter where they are in the school. She often hears her teacher gossiping in the
staff room and going to the bathroom. Her
ability to hear these things seems like a superpower to her, and soon Cece
gives herself the superhero name El Deafo.
When Cece’s classmates learn about this power, she really
becomes popular. Now the students can
have a party every time their teacher leaves because Cece can always warn them when
she’s coming back!
El
Deafo is a heartwarming graphic novel that celebrates what it’s
like to be a little different.
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