Chapter books with Deaf Characters

Hearing Boy, Mace, gets a chance to be a state-of-the-art pilot in the biggest race of the world, and he know American Sign Language.

Billy, with his BAHA can hear peoples thoughts and becomes a superhero that will save the country.

Nature loving Valencia is deaf, smart, brave, and secretly lonely. Join as she meets new friends after being bullied and sent on a quest.

Molly is Deaf with a capital D. Using ASL and Deaf proud! She was in a Deaf school, but just transferred to a mainstream. Join in her new class and as she grows up in a variety of schools!

These 12 year old twins have special powers and it introduces them to a new friend (who just happens to be Deaf and uses Sign Language.

Addy is special because of her hearing loss, but wants to be special for what she's done.

I’m losing all the hearing I have left; this is my journey to hear again, no matter what it takes.

At just two years old, Laura Bridgman lost her sight, hearing, and most of her smell and taste. Laura learned to communicate, read, write and eventually even to teach.

A girl living with fluctuating hearing levels has quiet days and loud days. Etta spends most of her time working on her comic book:   Invincible Girl-everything Etta wishes for herself.

14 year old boy loses his hearing and navigates his new world. Max’s hearing aid picks up odd sounds from a new wind farm off the coast.

Could being  different be an advantage? 

Caleb Zelic can’t hear you, but he sees everything. And he never forgets a face.

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This is a mystery book series for OLDER teens. It has some dark themes. 

Meet Duke, a second grader who loves to draw, play baseball, and explore the world . With his hearing aid, ASL, and his trusty IEP, Duke navigates school in his own special way.

deaf not Deaf is a story about an unlikely friendship between Rian and Luis, two sixth graders who understand deafness in very different ways.

Miranda is deaf and her closest friend Timothy has disappeared at sea. Without him, communication is difficult, often embarrassing, sometimes impossible. 

Dylan can't hear as well as he used to be able to and he doesn't want to be different from his friends - he wants to be able to hear like everyone else. As his hearing gets worse he becomes more and more isolated from his friends. 

Kendall was born with bilateral sensorineural hearing loss. But in her world, rhythm is something you feel with your feet, your heart, and your whole being.

Sadiq is looking forward to being a drummer in the school band when he's old enough. His new friend Gabi, who's deaf, shares his love of drums.

Sequel to Trailblazer. Mace, the Turbonaut becomes the greatest racer of all time.

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Naomi loves the outdoors, but not at this camp. At camp Naomi meets a new friend Jackie, who has Hearing Aids and they learn sign language together.

Joey's mom didn't allowed her to learn sign language but after meeting a chimpanzee who  signs she begins to secretly learn.

This delightful Halloween story is about cats, sign language, and a surprising friendship.

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A deaf girl, who is very intelligent

and often looked down upon,

learns about Blue 55, a real whale,

unable to speak to other whales, Iris understands how he must feel.

This is Julieann's journey to hearing again with a CI.

Her story, fears, anxieties, questioning, appointments, reactions,  Meniere's Disease, success and her hearing addiction.

Charlie (hearing) meets Frog (Deaf), and become mystery solving best friends. 

Charlie needs to learn American Sign Language (fast) to keep up with quick-witted Frog.

Landon Dorch is Deaf and the way he talks feels like an obstacle. He joins the school’s football team. The same speech problems and cochlear implants that help him hear also haunt him.

Rosie Vo is at odds with her dad. He pushes his racquetball hobby on to her to the point that she dreads ever spending time with him.

Her rival is Deaf and uses ASL.

Sophie wakes up deaf one morning, the life she once knew seems like a distant memory. She grows quieter and quieter. Until she discovers the vibrations of sound through an old set of drums.

Boogie Bass feels like he can't do anything right, but when he joins an after-school American Sign Language club, he turns out to be a natural!

Mary Lambert has always felt protected on Martha's Vineyard. Many people there are deaf, and nearly everyone can communicate in sign language. 

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Megan is excited when Cindy moves into her neighborhood -- maybe she'll finally have a best friend. Sure enough, the two girls quickly become inseparable.

Noah isn't your average middle schooler-he's a mind-reading secret agent caught in a government mission. He got in an accident leaving him Deaf with a CI.

Actual events played by Deaf high school and college football players

Egg Flounder is your average teenage boy in all ways except for one thing: he is deaf. This is Egg’s journal of his “floundering” attempts to live in a hearing world.

Jazmine wants to be invisible. She takes off her hearing aids and drifts along like nothing is wrong. 

(series has 

content warnings) 

Graphic Novel (true stories) from Cece Bell in the 1970s with her hearing aids. 

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Please note there is some negative views in this book as it is older.

A young girl is determined to be the first astronaut with hearing aids in space! Join as Astrid works at her life long goal to travel to Space!

Join SPUD, the Super Perceptive Undercover Detectives, on their first fast-paced detective adventure.

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Callie has new hearing aids!

Graphic novel (horror type story) about a girl with a hearing aid and ASL in the pictures! Follow as she discovers the mystery of camp whatever its called.

It's been a year since her diagnosis, and Rayne's hearing continues to decline, even with aids.

Graphic novel: Jessi, joined the babysitter's club and started babysitting Matt, who is Deaf and uses ASL. Join as Jessi learns ASL for Matt, their own secret language!

Meet Noah and Daniel, two boys who soon learn that being part of the worst soccer team isn't a setback, but a challenge to overcome. 

Noah has a CI.

Giana Cirone's life had been far from easy. After losing her hearing as a child, she had to adjust to a world of silence.

Jonathan’s hearing aids go missing, and they believe it must be the tricksy Ear Fairy, sister to the Tooth Fairy, who has taken them! 

Ellie’s Deaf school just shut down, forcing her to return to her hearing family. Being mainstreamed into public school isn't exactly easy. 

This is the moving story of parents coming to terms with their baby girl’s deafness. The love, hope, and anxieties of all hearing parents of deaf children are expressed with power and simplicity.

Okay, so she can’t hear as well as other people, but do they actually believe that means she can’t think as well?

In a noisy world, a boy discovers the power of silence.
13 y.o. Aarav lives in Mumbai, born deaf, he navigates  with lip-reading, hearing aids, sign and quiet resilience.

The Boys of Riverside looks back at the historic 2021 and 2022 seasons in which the California School for the Deaf chased history.

Here is a humorous, first-person account by a deaf boy mainstreamed into the sixth grade of a public school. He speaks of what it is like for him and of his perceptions of others' reactions to him.