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Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...
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Language
English
Description
A mother and daughter confront respective challenges, cope with celebrity and work through tragedy while maintaining an idyllic facade to the outside world, in an uplifting tale.
"[A] heartwarming and inspirational novel about a mother and daughter who face challenges, cope with celebrity, and overcome tragedy while maintaining the outward appearance of . . . A PERFECT LIFE. The epitome of intelligence, high-powered energy, and grace, Blaise McCarthy...
3) Night watch
Author
Series
Kendra Michaels volume 4
Language
English
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Description
"Born blind, Kendra Michaels spent the first twenty years of her life living in the darkness. Then, thanks to a revolutionary medical procedure developed by England's Night Watch Project, she was given the gift of sight. Her highly-developed senses (honed during her years in the dark), combined with her new found vision, have made her a remarkable investigator, sought after by law-enforcement agencies all over the country. But her newest case finds...
4) Undaunted
Author
Language
English
Description
Falling in love with her boss's handsome millionaire neighbor was easy for young Kate Martin. Despite the vast differences between them, and a past that's left Garrett Carlton reclusive and wary, Kate gambles her heart on a desire that rocks them both. But there's something Garrett doesn't know: Kate is responsible for an accident that changed his life forever.
Author
Series
Elmwood Springs volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Captures the humorous and complex realities of ordinary people living in Elmwood Springs, Missouri, including Neighbor Dorothy, a radio hostess, her son Bobby, the Oatman Family gospel singers, and hotshot salesman Hamm Sparks.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Using carefully honed sensory skills gleaned from a childhood spent blind to solve cases, music therapist Kendra Michael is tapped by former FBI agent Adam Kyle, who is investigating the work of a serial killer who may be responsible for the disappearance of Kendra's ex.
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Series
Language
English
Description
When she was 19 months old, Helen Keller (1880–1968) suffered a severe illness that left her blind and deaf. Not long after, she also became mute. Her tenacious struggle to overcome these handicaps - with the help of her inspired and inspiring teacher, Anne Sullivan - is one of the great stories of human courage and dedication. The Story of My Life, first published in 1903, is Helen Keller's classic autobiography detailing the first 22 years of...
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2005], c2001
Physical Desc
238, 215, 236 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The lives and love of Philip Bradley and Rachel Yoder captivate readers again in this 3-in-1 edition of the popular series featuring The postcard, The crossroad, and Sanctuary"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 331 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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...
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Language
English
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Homer, the world-renowned Blind Wonder Cat, returns this holiday season with an ins-purr-ational tale filled with holiday cheer! Fifteen years earlier, doctors had warned that Homer-a tiny, sightless kitten-was unlikely to survive and probably wouldn't have much of a life even if he did. Miraculously and against all the odds, however, Homer grew into a feline dynamo who scaled seven-foot bookcases with ease, saved his human mom's life when he chased...
Author
Series
Peter Nimble adventure volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Raised to be a thief, blind orphan Peter Nimble, age ten, steals from a mysterious stranger three pairs of magical eyes, that lead him to a hidden island where he must decide to become a hero or resume his life of crime.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
199 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Even with her bad eyesight Mafalda can see that people are already treating her differently and that s the last thing she wants. So, she hides the fact that her vision is deteriorating faster than anyone predicted, and she makes a plan: When the time is right, she ll go live in the cherry tree, just like her favorite book character.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Fifth-grader Cally Louise Fisher stops talking, partly because her father and brother never speak of her mother who died a year earlier, but visions of her mother, friendships with a homeless man and a disabled boy, and a huge dog ensure that she still communicates.
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.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ollie, who has seizures when near electricity, lives in a backwoods cabin with his mother and rarely sees other people, and Moritz, born with no eyes and a heart defect that requires a pacemaker, is bullied at his high school, but when a physician who knows both suggests they begin corresponding, they form a strong bond that may get them through dark times.
20) Things that are
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Series
Language
English
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Still adjusting to being blind, Alicia must outwit an invisible man who is putting her family and her boyfriend, who was once invisible himself, in danger.
