Joanne Greenberg
2) Simple gifts
Author
Pub. Date
[1986]
Physical Desc
ix, 198 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The Fleuris family's attempt to turn their dirt-poor family farm into a government-funded 1880s ranch becomes a hilarious adventure.
Series
Gold crown collector's edition volume 64
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Margaret Ryder, the hearing daughter of deaf parents, grows up during the Great Depression, she alone is the link between Mama and Papa's silent world and the hearing world they do not fully understand...and it does not understand them. Her youth is spent sacrificing friendships and romance as she struggles to keep her parents' deafness a secret from everyone who knows her. Torn between the responsibility she feels for her parents and her own...
