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A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write.

An Appalachian girl, Arizona Houston Hughes, grows up to become a teacher who influences generations of schoolchildren.

Explores a typical day in the work of a third-grade teacher, describing his activities in the classroom, lunchroom, and teachers' meeting.

A biography, focusing on the childhood years, of the blind and deaf woman who overcame her handicaps with the help of her teacher, Annie Sullivan.

Describes the "life before stardom" and selection of a New Hampshire teacher as the first private citizen to go into space, her training as an astronaut, and the shuttlecraft disaster that ended her life.

Presents the life of Booker T. Washington who was born into slavery but eventually went to school and became the president of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.