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Language
English
Description
A tale inspired by a little-known romance between the famous blind and deaf Radcliffe graduate and her private secretary, Peter Fagan, takes place in Keller's thirties when, in the wake of Annie Sullivan's diagnosis with tuberculosis, Keller's plans to marry are thwarted by her disapproving family.
4) Helen Keller
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Helen Keller lost her sight and hearing due to an early childhood illness and spent the first six years of her life unable to interact with other people. She remained isolated from the outside world until Anne Sullivan came to work as her teacher. In this biography for kids ages 8-12, learn all about Helen Keller's amazing life and achievements -- how she learned to read Braille and speak, go to college, write books, and ultimately revolutionize the...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
She sent shockwaves through the South when she launched a public broadside against Jim Crow and donated to the NAACP. She used her fame to oppose American intervention in WWI. She spoke out against Hitler the month he took power in 1933. But who was this revolutionary figure? She was Helen Keller. Most mainstream portrayals of Keller focus heavily on her struggles as a deafblind child, portraying her teacher, Annie Sullivan, as a miracle worker. This...
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Helen Keller was an activist, rebel, performer, romantic and so much more! Most stories about Helen Keller focus on the story of her deaf-blindness and scholarship, but there is more to Helen than her disability. This story teaches children to look beyond the surface with everyone they encounter"--
Author
Publisher
Swedenborg Foundation Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
viii, 104 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Language
English
Description
An essay in which Helen Keller reacts to the spiritual works of Emanuel Swedenborg, accompanied by an introduction, images of Helen Keller, and quotations from the Swedenborg's writings.
Author
Publisher
A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 394 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Dorothy Herrmann's biography of Helen Keller takes us through Helen's long, eventful life, a life that would have crushed a woman less stoic and adaptable - and less protected. She was either venerated as a saint or damned as a fraud. And one of the most persistent controversies surrounding her had to do with her relationship to the fiercely devoted Annie, through whom she largely expressed herself. Dorothy Herrmann explores these questions: Was Annie...
14) Helen Keller
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
31 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
15) Helen Keller
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
53 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Helen Keller, part of the She Persisted chapter book series."--
16) Annie and Helen
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the relationship between Helen Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan, and includes excerpts from letters written by Annie about her work with Helen.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of Helen Keller, including how she lost her sight and hearing, how her teacher, Anne Sullivan, changed her life, and how she founded schools for the blind and deaf all over the world.
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