What does it feel like when a whistle sends pain straight through your ears?
When the waterfall you’ve loved your whole life suddenly sounds wrong with hearing aids in?
When everyone laughs at something you didn’t hear, and you smile along anyway?
These eight stories know.
The Things We Hear: Stories for Kids Who Are Hard of Hearing follows Mia, Eli, Ruby, Dani, Nora, Caleb, Zoe, and Owen, kids navigating the world with humor, resilience, and senses sharpened in ways most people never notice. A girl who spots a rare bird no one else can find. A boy who discovers that a basketball game has its own quiet elegance. A child who realizes that the sounds she loved are permanently hers, no technology can take them away.
Their stories are funny, quiet, sometimes hard, and always true.
Written by an author who has been hard of hearing for most of her life, this collection gives hard-of-hearing children the rarest gift: the feeling of being completely understood.
Each story includes Let’s Talk discussion questions perfect for home or classroom conversation.
For readers ages 7–10.
