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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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In this autobiography, initially published in 1903, Helen Keller recalls her remarkable life as a blind and deaf woman taught to communicate by Ann Sullivan. Here among other memories, Keller describes her epiphany at the water pump when she connected the physical world with its linguistic counterpart. Keller was eventually educated at Radcliffe University, where she graduated with honors.
2) Helen Keller
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Describes how a woman left blind and deaf from a childhood illness overcame her handicaps to become a noted writer and humanitarian.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
This heartwarming tale of love, life, and friendship by the Newbery Medalist tells the story of how Granny Torrelli's warm words and secret recipes mend a rift between 12-year-old Rosie and her best friend.
With the help of her wise old grandmother, twelve-year-old Rosie manages to work out some problems in her relationship with her best friend, Bailey, the boy next door.
Author
Series
Things not seen volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible, he and his parents and his new blind friend Alicia try to find out what caused his condition and how to reverse it. He must find out why this is happening to him.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Some people are blind. What does that mean? Using simple, engaging text and full-color photos, readers learn what blindness is, how it can be caused, and what daily life is like for someone who can't see.This book includes a video, which launches via a 4D app"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"In the badlands, where the ground is soft but the slopes are steep and the vegetation is scarce, it can be difficult for a wild horse to survive. Even more so if that horse is blind. But this young colt has his strong mare of a mother looking out for him, and his other senses help him smell the friendly prairie dogs, feel for rough terrain, and hear whenever wolves draw near-- sometimes well before anyone else in his herd. That's not all. A boy...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighth-grade star quarterback Nate Brodie's family is feeling the stress of the troubled economy, and Nate is frantic because his best friend Abby is going blind, so when he gets a chance to win a million dollars if he can complete a pass during the halftime of a New England Patriot's game, he is nearly overwhelmed by the pressure to succeed.
10) Hindsight
Author
Series
Kendra Michaels volume 7
Language
English
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Description
"Dr. Kendra Michaels, blind for the first twenty years of her life before gaining her sight via a revolutionary surgical procedure, is a renowned investigator known for her razor-sharp senses--honed during her years in the dark--and keen deductive abilities. Now her skills are needed uncomfortably close to home. Two staff members have been murdered at a school for the blind where Kendra spent her formative years. But the murders are puzzlingly dissimilar:...
12) Helen Keller
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A brief biography of Helen Keller who was both blind and deaf, yet inspired many with her spirit and achievements.
13) Girl, stolen
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When an impulsive carjacking turns into a kidnapping, Griffin, a high school dropout, finds himself more in sympathy with his wealthy, blind victim, sixteen-year-old Cheyenne, than with his greedy father.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of Oliver Sacks's The Island of the Colorblind, Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who founded the school. Fascinated and impressed by what she learned from the blind children of Tibet, Mahoney was moved to investigate further the cultural history of blindness. As part of her research, she spent three months teaching...
15) The crossroad
Author
Series
Amish country crossroads volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the dramatic conclusion to his discovery of a long-lost postcard, journalist Philip Bradley simply cannot forget the Amish people he met while on assignment in Pennsylvania particularly Rachel Yoder and her young daughter, Annie. Drawn back to Lancaster County over the Christmas holidays, Philip struggles with the vast gulf separating him from the beautiful plain woman.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Good news! Fannie's back in town--and the town is among the leading characters in her new novel. Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner; the oddly sexy and charismatic...
Author
Language
English
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"A probing, witty, and deeply insightful history of blindness--in Western culture and literature, and in the author's own experience--that ranges from Homer to Milton to Braille to Stevie Wonder. M. Leona Godin begins her fascinating, wide-ranging study with an exploration of how the idea of sight is inextricably linked with knowledge and understanding; how "blindness" has, for millennia, been used as a metaphor for ignorance; and how, in metaphorical...
Author
Series
Inheritance trilogy (N. K. Jemisin) volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
After a band of killers begins murdering godlings, blind artist Oree Shoth wonders if her recent guest is at the heart of it, his presence putting her in danger.
20) Apt. 3
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On a rainy day two brothers try to discover who is playing the harmonica they hear in their apartment building.