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Author
Series
Joey Pigza books volume 3
Language
English
Description
Joey tries to keep his life from degenerating into total chaos when his mother sends him to be home-schooled with a hostile blind girl, his divorced parents cannot stop fighting, and his grandmother is dying of emphysema.
4) Blindsided
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After years of failing eyesight, fourteen-year-old Natalie reluctantly enters a school for the blind, where in spite of her initial resistance she learns the skills that will help her survive in the sighted world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
139 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1932, a twelve-year-old girl who lost her sight in an accident keeps a diary, recorded by her twin sister, in which she describes life at Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts.
Author
Language
English
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
Language
English
Description
When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative. Includes appendix by Syd Fox with information about bridge.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having survived being blinded and shipwrecked on a tiny Caribbean island with the old black man Timothy, twelve-year-old white Phillip is rescued and hopes to regain his sight with an operation. Alternate chapters follow the life of Timothy from his days as a young cabin boy.
11) Louisiana's song
Author
Series
Maggie Valley series volume 2
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Livy Two is happy that Daddy is finally out of his coma, but the befuddled man who comes home is not the daddy the Weems family once knew. He forgets their names, he wanders off—he won’t even touch his beloved banjo. Set in Appalachia in 1963, this heartwarming, and heart-wrenching, follow-up to Gentle’s Holler is narrated by the irrepressible Livy Two, and traces the ups and downs of her large mountain family. Shy and awkward 11-year-old...
12) The secret code
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Oscar, who is blind, teaches Lucy how to read his Braille book.
13) The cay
Author
Language
English
Description
When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old black man are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
14) Gentle's Holler
Author
Series
Maggie Valley series volume 1
Language
English
Description
In the early 1960s, twelve-year-old songwriter Livy Two Weems dreams of seeing the world beyond the Maggie Valley, North Carolina, holler where she lives in poverty with her parents and eight brothers and sisters, but understands that she must put family first.
Author
Series
Peter Nimble adventures volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
381 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
17) The blind hunter
Author
Publisher
M. Cavendish
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
27 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A blind African hunter teaches a young man how to see by using his other senses.
19) Aggie gets lost
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Ben and Aggie are playing in the park when she chases a ball and does not return, but after looking for her and worrying about her, Ben speaks with his blind friend, Mr. Thomas, who suggests a different approach.
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