~ Hardcover
~ Winner of the Garden State Book Award for Fiction (Grade 9-12) - 2025
~ New Release - 2023
All they need are the right words . . .
Struggling with hearing loss Lilah constantly feels stuck in the middle, she's not hearing enough nor deaf enough to identify with either community, but she's decided not to let her hearing loss limit her, and becomes a counselor at a summer camp for the deaf and blind to brush up on her ASL. Romance was never on the agenda, but when she meets Isaac, the dreamy Deaf counselor who volunteers to help her with her signing, she wonders if the signs might start pointing to love.
In her sweet and swoony debut, Give Me A Sign Anna Sortino delivers a poignant coming-of-age story and a revelatory exploration of Deaf culture, its vastness, and its beautiful complexities.