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Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Description
"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,...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
202 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old blind teen Will Porter undergoes an experimental surgery that enables him to see for the first time, all while navigating a new school, new friends, and a crush"--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
237 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1960s, twelve-year-old songwriter Livy Two Weems dreams of seeing the world beyond the Maggie Valley, North Carolina, holler where she lives in poverty with her parents and eight brothers and sisters, but understands that she must put family first.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
[32] p.: col. ill.; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Ephram becomes friends with a blind man in his neighborhood and finds out that Mr. Washington was a famous pianist who hasn't touched a piano for a long time, he resolves to get the man back on stage.
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
1998
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
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
208 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
At age twenty-one, partially-blind, lonely but spirited Annie Sullivan travels from Massachusetts to Alabama to try and teach six-year-old Helen Keller, deaf and blind since age two, self-discipline and communication skills. Includes historical notes and timeline.
9) Undaunted
Author
Language
English
Description
Falling in love with her boss's handsome millionaire neighbor was easy for young Kate Martin. Despite the vast differences between them, and a past that's left Garrett Carlton reclusive and wary, Kate gambles her heart on a desire that rocks them both. But there's something Garrett doesn't know: Kate is responsible for an accident that changed his life forever.
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Emily Bestler books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Arlo Dilly is young, handsome and eager to meet the right girl. He also happens to be DeafBlind, a Jehovah's Witness, and under the strict guardianship of his controlling uncle. His chances of finding someone to love seem slim to none. And yet, it happened once before: many years ago, at a boarding school for the Deaf, Arlo met the love of his life-a mysterious girl with onyx eyes and beautifully expressive hands which told him the most amazing stories....
11) Give me a sign
Author
Language
English
Description
Lilah is stuck in the middle. At least, that's what having a hearing loss seems like sometimes--when you don't feel "deaf enough" to identify as Deaf or hearing enough to meet the world's expectations. But this summer, Lilah is ready for a change.
When Lilah becomes a counselor at a summer camp for the deaf and blind, her plan is to brush up on her ASL. Once there, she also finds a community. There are cute British lifeguards who break hearts but...