which book is about a girl who teaches a deaf boy sign language and the town thinks she’s a witch?

The book was possibly written in the nineteenth century? I am not sure if she actually teaches him sign language but it is something to that effect. The town or some people think that what she does is crazy and they burn her hand or something to see if she is a witch. .

Good American Sign Language Learning Assistance Sites?

Ok tomarrow I start an ASL class at my college and I was hoping to get some more sites to help my learning and retention of the language. I all ready know about http://asl.ms/ http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/fingerspelling/fingerspelling.htm http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/lessons/lesson01.htm Do the good people of Yahoo Answers have any more good sites? .