Jake's the Name: Sixth Grade's the Game by Deb Piper

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 how other people react to him. Jake is a typical adolescent boy with opinions about everything, coping with the changes of growing up, trying to understand his parents who are tuned into adolescence, and trying to figure out his buddies who are now acting flat out weird around girls. He is also a scamp at heart, and his antics will make the reader laugh out loud.

Entertaining and informative, Jake will be particularly dear to mainstream receiving teachers, professionals in the deaf and hard of hearing field, interpreters, adolescents schooled in main-streamed classes, and their parents.

Deb Piper has been an interpreter for more than a decade. She has long felt the need for this book, a need that has now become acute because of increasing numbers of deaf and hard of hearing students mainstreamed into classrooms in the public schools. She is a resident of Minnesota.

Jake's adventures continue in Those Sevy Blues and in the latest book, From A To Zulinski.