This. This book right here. This was exactly what I needed to pick up my mood. 
 Julia is 16, Deaf, brown, and has two moms, and every single one of these things is important to her story. 
 It's kind of a slice-of-life and friendship book, with a side of (to me) predictable mystery, but it's cute, and it's not something I've seen before. 
 Yeah, Julia's occasionally petty, and she's very dramatic. (The teen drama in this book is intense). But I remember being 16. It's pretty hellish. And I didn't have nearly the deck of cards that Julia does. So I'm willing to cut her character a fair bit of slack. And she does figure things out in the end, so... 
 Major props to Whitney Gardner for doing her research and getting feedback from the d/Deaf and HoH community. The effort shows. I honestly can't remember the last time I saw a d/Deaf character in published fiction, much less one portrayed (as far as my hearing self can tell) this accurately. From how lip reading gets at best 30% of the spoken conversation, to the fact that ASL is not some game of charades or signed English but is in fact its own language with unique grammar, to social and legal troubles brought on by the communication barrier--I was blown away. And it's not just the big stuff, but all the little things that make Julia's world livable to the reader: Visual signals instead of audio, vibrating alarms that shake the whole bed, etc. 
 Short version: teen drama aside, this is a really cute book with really cool representation, and you guys should go read it.