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ve: L e W s book ookshelf Eva’s B Eva is a 14-year-old girl from New Jersey who has always loved reading. She has hearing loss in her left ear, but with the help of her Roger Focus® receiver and wireless system, she never lets hearing loss hold her back! Ready to discover your next favorite book? Eva invites you to explore her bookshelf. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green is a beautiful but saddening story about two teens, Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters, who have been touched by the darkness of cancer. The book wasn’t all sad though; Augustus and Hazel share many fun and memorable moments together. Reading Hazel’s deep thoughts about life and love made me think as well. I enjoyed watching the movie version after reading the book. I would recommend this book to kids ages 13+ if you like reading heartfelt stories.
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i n InspiratioN Stat All of our Hearing Our Way subscribers are VIP (Very Important People! ), but we wanted to highlight a very special customer of many years, Grover Brillhart, as we celebrate the theme of gratitude this holiday season. Since 2017, Grover has ordered subscriptions of up to 400 magazines each year… but he doesn’t even receive Hearing Our Way! He gifts them to his daughter Brenna, a former deaf education teacher and current educational diagnostician who shares the magazines with her students across 12 school districts. Over the years, over 6000 magazines have been given out to her students, all thanks to Grover. Brenna fell in love with Hearing Our Way while working at a school that provided them for her to use. But when she moved to another school district, they did not have a subscription to the magazine. Brenna told her parents how much of an impact Hearing Our Way had on her students and how much she missed it. Grover and his wife Karen discussed the problem and decided that this resource was so important that they would personally pay for the subscription for the entire school district! Brenna was very thankful for her parents’ generosity and uses Hearing Our Way with all of her students. Sadly, in 2019, Karen passed away. Now each year when Grover renews his subscription to Hearing Our Way for Brenna, he honors his wife’s legacy and their promise to support their daughter and all of her students. Grover also has a hearing loss story of his own now. A few years ago, he realized he wasn’t hearing as well as he used to, so he made an appointment with an audiologist who fit him with hearing aids. Grover’s hearing aids have made a huge difference in his life by reconnecting him with his friends, family, and business clients. During the holiday season, we celebrate and give thanks to Grover, Karen & Brenna, and all of our wonderful readers who help spread the love by subscribing to Hearing Our Way!
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Language can be tricky, especially idioms, which are groups of words or expressions that mean something different than what they say. You might hear the idiom silver lining and think of a silver pen, but no! A silver lining is something positive that comes out of a negative situation. Like this: “Feeling sick and staying overnight in the hospital was a scary experience, but the silver lining was meeting my roommate and making a great new friend.”
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