El deafo

Resource Information

The work El deafo represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in LaGrange County Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

El deafo

Statement of responsibility

Cece Bell ; color by David Lasky

Creator

• trueBell, Cece
• Bell, Cece

Contributor

4IRruvzxndU

Artist

• Bell, Cece

Author

• Bell, Cece

Subject

• trueBiographies -- Identity | Children and teenagers
• Authors -- Cartoons and comics
• Authors, American -- Biography | Comic books, strips, etc
• Authors, American -- Biography | Juvenile literature
• trueAutobiographical comics
• trueBell, Cece
• Bell, Cece -- Cartoons and comics
• Bell, Cece -- Childhood and youth -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Bell, Cece -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Bell, Cece -- Juvenile literature
• trueBiographies -- Coping with challenges | Disability
• Cartoonists -- Biography | Comic books, strips, etc
• trueCartoonists -- United States -- Biography
• Comic books, strips, etc. -- United States
• Comics (Graphic works)
• trueComics and Graphic novels
• Deaf -- Cartoons and comics
• Deaf -- United States -- Biography | Comic books, strips, etc
• Deaf -- United States -- Biography | Juvenile literature
• Deaf children -- Comic books, strips, etc
• trueDeafness
• Friendship -- Comic books, strips, etc
• trueGirls who are deaf
• trueGirls with disabilities
• Graphic novels
• Graphic novels
• trueHearing
• trueHearing aids
• Hearing aids for children -- Comic books, strips, etc
• trueSchools
• Schools -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Women -- Biography | Cartoons and comics
• Young adult fiction

Genre

• Comics (Graphic works)
• trueCartoons and comics
• trueBiography
• Young adult fiction
• trueComic books, strips, etc
• trueGraphic novels
• trueBiographies
• trueAutobiographical comics
• Juvenile literature
• trueComics and Graphic novels

Language

eng

Summary

"Going to school and making new friends can be tough. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles her hearing loss at a young age and her subsequent experiences with the Phonic Ear, a very powerful--and very awkward--hearing aid. The Phonic Ear gives Cece the ability to hear--sometimes things she shouldn't--but also isolates her from her classmates. She really just wants to fit in and find a true friend, someone who appreciates her as she is. After some trouble, she is finally able to harness the power of the Phonic Ear and become "El Deafo, Listener for All." And more importantly, declare a place for herself in the world and find the friend she's longed for"--

Storyline

• trueOwn voices

Tone

• trueInspiring
• trueAmusing

Writing style

• trueAttention-grabbing

Character

• trueAbility diverse
• trueSpunky
• trueBelievable

Illustration

• trueCartoony

Award

• ALA Notable Children's Book, 2015
• Beehive Children's Fiction Book Award (Utah), 2016.
• Bluestem Award: Illinois' Grades 3-5 Readers' Choice Award, 2017.
• Great Lakes Great Books Award (Michigan), Grades 4-5, 2015.
• Great Stone Face Children's Book Award (New Hampshire), 2016.
• Keystone to Reading Book Award (Pennsylvania), Middle School level, 2016
• Maine Student Book Award, 2016.
• Massachusetts Children's Book Award, 2017.
• Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award (Minnesota), Division I (Grades 3-5), 2017.
• Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award (Minnesota), Division II (Grades 6-8), 2017.
• Nene Award (Hawaii), 2018.
• Notable Books for a Global Society, 2015.
• Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards, Grades 3-6, 2016.
• School Library Journal Best Books: Fiction, 2014
• South Carolina Book Award, Children’s Books, 2017.
• YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens, 2015.
• YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 2016
• Young Reader's Choice Award (Pacific Northwest), Junior, 2017.

Assigning source

from publisher's web site

Awards note

• Newbery Honor award, 2015
• Young Hoosier Book Intermediate Grades 4-6 Award nominee, 2016-2017

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

• YDXCP
• YDXCP

Dewey number

• 362.4/2092
• B

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

HV2534.B44

LC item number

A3 2014

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 2
• 6

Nature of contents

comics graphic novels

Target audience

juvenile