After a meteorite shower blinds the majority of England's citizens, Bill Mason, whose sight was saved, leaves the city with a young woman, hoping to find a way to survive in the post-apocalyptic world.
A wise old Italian grandmother tells her stubborn twelve-year-old granddaughter, Rosie, stories from her childhood while the two make soup in order to help the child mend her differences with her best friend, Bailey.
A sixteen-year-old girl's first celebration of Kwanza gives her a sense of the past and strength to deal with her troubled mother and her own blindness.
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.