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Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
139 p. : ill. ; 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
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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Series
Language
English
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A final gift from Bruce Alexander: a new book in his acclaimed mystery series about blind eighteenth-century London judge Sir John Fielding
Beloved by legions of fans and a staple of best-of-the-year book lists, the Fielding mysteries thrill readers with a pitch-perfect fusion of vivid characterizations, evocative atmosphere, and riveting plotlines. And now, for all those fans, here is one more.
In Rules of Engagement, Sir John...
Beloved by legions of fans and a staple of best-of-the-year book lists, the Fielding mysteries thrill readers with a pitch-perfect fusion of vivid characterizations, evocative atmosphere, and riveting plotlines. And now, for all those fans, here is one more.
In Rules of Engagement, Sir John...
4) The insult
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Aggie and Ben stories volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Things not seen volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
251 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes a day in the life of a seeing eye dog, from going with his owner to the grocery store and post office, to visiting a class of school children, and playing ball. Also describes their three-hundred mile walk from Boston to New York.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
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
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After spending his last year at Addison School for the Blind, Ryder will need his sense of humor to help him make the transition to eighth grade at Papuaville Middle School where he is now enrolled to accommodate his parents' new jobs.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Personal Effects follows the extensive notes of therapist Zach Taylor's investigation into the life and madness of Martin Grace, an accused serial killer who claims to have foreseen, but not caused, his victims' deaths. Zach's investigations start with interviews and art sessions, but then take him far from the hospital grounds-and often very far from the reality that we know.
The items among Grace's personal effects are the keys to understanding...
Author
Series
Joey Pigza books volume 3
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
229 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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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.
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
xi, 163 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Abby Carter attends the newly established school for the blind in Boston in 1832, she proves that blind people can learn and be independent.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
218 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A London teenager who is blind and her younger brother travel to New York to find their missing father, using clues from his notebook.
Author
Series
Peter Nimble adventures volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
381 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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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.
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
141 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
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
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
99 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the request of her great-aunt, ten-year-old Jo tries to befriend a sad and lonely blind girl who is visiting the neighborhood.
18) The ables
Author
Series
Ables volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of a teenager named Phillip who is blind and is told by his father that Phillip has telekinetic powers. He attends a school for those with similar powers but soon finds that others harass him because he is put in a special education class. He and his friends call themselves the Ables and discover that a malevolent force is going after humans.
19) As brave as you
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfires--literally"--
Author
Series
Language
English
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Santa Cruz restaurateur Sally Solari's life is already boiling over as she deals with irate cooks and other staffing issues at the busy Gauguin restaurant. The rainy December weather isn't cooling things down either. So she's steamed when her dad persuades her to take in Evelyn, her estranged blind cousin whose mother has just died of a drug overdose. But Evelyn proves to be lots of fun, and she's a terrific cook. Back at the house she'd shared with...
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