blind

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blind

Seeing lessons

the story of Abigail Carter and America's first school for blind people
1998
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.

What would Joey do?

2002
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.

Buffalo Bird Girl

a Hidatsa story
2012
A picture book biography that examines the life of Buffalo Bird Woman a Hidatsa Native American who lived during the 1800s.

The cardturner

a novel about a king, a queen, and a joker
2010
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.

The story of my life

1980
Helen Keller tells how she learned to read, write, and speak despite the fact that she was blind and deaf.

The Helen Keller story

1959
A biography of the blind and deaf woman who rose above her physical disabilities to international renown and who helped other handicapped persons live fuller lives.

The cay

1987
After the freighter on which Phillip and his mother were traveling from wartime Curacao to the U.S. is torpedoed, the boy finds himself dependent on an old West Indian for survival.

Million-dollar throw

2009
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.

Teacher's pet

2001
Adjusting to middle school becomes easier for twelve-year-old Maggie when she finds that her biology teacher, who is blind, can learn a few things from her about working with his guide dog.

See you tomorrow, Charles

1989
The first graders learn to accept the new boy, who is blind, as just like themselves.

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