Bell, Cece. El Deafo. Amulet Books, 2014.
Genre: Fiction
Lexile: GN420L
More info: https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/books/el-deafo-by-cece-bell/
Summary: Cece is diagnosed as deaf when she is four years old. This graphic follows her life and how she deals with tough circumstances surrounding her disability. She struggles to balance her "normal" life with the way her disability makes her feel. She also encounters people treating her differently because she is deaf, a form of bullying. Follow Cece as she (sometimes) encompasses a super hero to prove that she is capable of doing anything.
Target audience: 5th-8th grade. This would be a great book for middle school/jr high.
Evaluation: I think that every middle schooler should read this book. It is a graphic novel so it will capture their attention but the story line will hold their attention throughout. It teaches a valuable lesson to students that having a disability doesn't restrict you it just means you do things differently. This book encourages students to stand up to bullying and not to allow peers to bully people with disabilities. I love that the character is deaf but also a superhero. This will also show students that you can have a disability and still be a superhero.
Reader response activity: It would be a big project but a fun idea would be to have students create their own mini graphic novel modeled after El Deafo. I would ask them to think of a time they were bullied for being different or felt excluded from a certain group because they did not fit in. I would then ask them to draw/write a mini graphic novel about the situation.
Summary: Cece is diagnosed as deaf when she is four years old. This graphic follows her life and how she deals with tough circumstances surrounding her disability. She struggles to balance her "normal" life with the way her disability makes her feel. She also encounters people treating her differently because she is deaf, a form of bullying. Follow Cece as she (sometimes) encompasses a super hero to prove that she is capable of doing anything.
Target audience: 5th-8th grade. This would be a great book for middle school/jr high.
Evaluation: I think that every middle schooler should read this book. It is a graphic novel so it will capture their attention but the story line will hold their attention throughout. It teaches a valuable lesson to students that having a disability doesn't restrict you it just means you do things differently. This book encourages students to stand up to bullying and not to allow peers to bully people with disabilities. I love that the character is deaf but also a superhero. This will also show students that you can have a disability and still be a superhero.
Reader response activity: It would be a big project but a fun idea would be to have students create their own mini graphic novel modeled after El Deafo. I would ask them to think of a time they were bullied for being different or felt excluded from a certain group because they did not fit in. I would then ask them to draw/write a mini graphic novel about the situation.
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