blind

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blind

The distance between me and the cherry tree

2020
When nine-year-old Mafalda learns she will go blind in six months from Stargardt Disease, she needs the help of family and friends to retain what is essential to her.

Helen's big world

the life of Helen Keller
2017
An illustrated biography of Helen Keller, introducing young readers to her life and legacy, and including quotations by Keller.

Have dog, will travel

a poet's journey
2018
"[Stephan] Kuusisto was born legally blind, but being raised in the 1950s he was taught to deny his blindness in order to 'pass' as sighted. As an adult, he coped with his limited vision until he was laid off. With no other job opportunities in his vicinity, he would have to travel to find work. He found himself at Guiding Eyes paired with a Labrador named Corky. Here he recounts how partnership with a guide dog changed his life, and the . . . adventure that began for him in midlife"--OCLC.

And there was light

the extraordinary memoir of a blind hero of the French resistance in World War II
2014
"Autobiography addressing the author's childhood experience of inner spiritual vision after becoming blind as a boy, his forming a boys' resistance group in occupied Paris at age seventeen (which later merged with D?fense de la France), and his imprisonment in the Buchenwald concentration camp"--Provided by publisher.

Un perro llamado Vagabundo

2012
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. Presented in Spanish.

The brushmaker's daughter

"Set in Berlin, Germany in 1939, a Jewish girl and her blind father try to avoid arrest by the Nazis with the help of a real-life upstander, German businessman Otto Weidt. Inspired by the real-life hero Otto Weidt - a German who risked his life to protect Jews from the Nazis"--Provided bypublisher.

All about Helen Keller

Looks at the life of Helen Keller, a woman who lost her vision and hearing at the age of two, but went on, with the help of her teacher Annie Sullivan, to become a world-famous speaker and writer.

Courage of Helen Keller

1982
Recounts how the young Helen Keller, left blind and deaf by a childhood illness, learned to communicate with the world.

Leah's song

1989
Leah's mother struggles to support Leah and her brother Daniel with her sewing. When one of her mother's customers wants to adopt her brother, a blind friend unites the family.

Granny Torrelli makes soup

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.
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