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At the River Valley School for the Deaf, Charlie, a teenager whose cochlear implant has never worked well, arrives late in her schooling, February, the hearing headmistress, fights to keep the school open, and Austin, a student from a deaf family, faces change at home.
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Wonder
August Pullman, a ten-year-old boy born with a severe facial difference, has always been taught at home, and when he starts fifth grade at a private school in Manhattan, he has to convince his classmates that he is an ordinary kid.
Sankofa
Anna Bain, a mixed-race woman in London whose marriage has ended and whose mother has just died, finds her mother's old diary and learns that her father was a West African student who went on to rule his country.
The Rainbow Troops
On a tin-mining island in Indonesia, ten poor children and two devoted teachers keep a crumbling Muslim village school alive against the threat of closure.
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
A skeleton found in a Pottstown well cracks open decades of buried history among Black, Jewish, and immigrant residents of a hillside neighbourhood.
I Have Some Questions for You
A film professor and podcaster returns to the New Hampshire boarding school she attended to teach a short course, and her students' project reopens the 1995 murder of her former roommate.
Beneath the Wheel
Hans Giebenrath, the gifted son of a Black Forest merchant, is pushed by his father and teachers into the elite Maulbronn seminary, where a rebellious friend shows him another way to live.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Arnold Spirit Jr., a budding cartoonist growing up poor on the Spokane Indian Reservation, decides to transfer to the all-white farm-town high school twenty-two miles away, where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
Looking for Alaska
Miles Halter leaves Florida for a boarding school in Alabama in search of what Rabelais called the Great Perhaps, and finds it in his new friends and in Alaska Young, a clever, reckless girl who pulls him into her orbit.
A Separate Peace
A New England boys' school in the last summer of the Second World War, and a narrator who lives the rest of his life trying to understand what he did on a tree branch to the boy he loved.
Maame
Maddie Wright, twenty-five, works a job she hates in London and looks after her father, who has Parkinson's, while her mother spends most of the year in Ghana, until a chance to move out gives her a life of her own.
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
Four sisters from a well-off Dominican family, forced to flee to New York in 1960, grow up American, told backwards from adulthood to their island childhood.
Happiness Falls
When her father fails to come home from a walk in the park with her fifteen-year-old brother Eugene, who has Angelman syndrome and cannot speak, Mia, twenty, tries to work out what Eugene saw.