# El Deafo

**Author:** Cece Bell
**Lexile:** 420L
**Grade range:** Grades 4–6
**Age range:** 8–12
**First published:** 2014
**Page count:** 248
**Genre:** Middle Grade Graphic Novel
**ISBN-13:** `9781419710209`
**ISBN-10:** `1419710206`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/el-deafo
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

After an illness leaves her deaf, Cece navigates school with a bulky hearing aid — and reimagines it as the superpower of her alter ego, El Deafo. Cece Bell's Newbery Honor graphic memoir about disability, friendship, and finding your people is a grades 4-6 staple.

## Themes

- disability
- friendship
- self-acceptance
- growing up

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