Book excerpt: Pam and Jodi’s Journey is the ninth book Mrs. Beckley has written for Xlibris. It tells the story of a ninth-grade girl Pam, who is 80 percent deaf in both ears, and her best friend, Jodi, who also acts as her interpreter, and how they introduce their classmates and school to American Sign Language, or ASL, and its culture. Pam and Jodi’s Journey also teaches you, the reader, about the history of American Sign Language.