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1) Blind spot
Author
Series
Chesapeake valor volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When FBI agent Declan Grey's investigation of a terrorist cell leads him to an insular immigrant community, he turns to crisis counselor Tanner Shaw for help in stopping a deadly plot.
2) Double blind
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A dramatic and powerful novel reflecting on nature, nurture, inquiry, perception, and the myriad ways we try to understand what it means to be alive"--
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.
5) Dead drift
Author
Series
Chesapeake Valor volume 4
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seven years after disappearing to be part of an elite antiterrorist group, Luke Gallagher returns and needs the help of private investigator Kate Maxwell, the woman who never stopped loving him, to stop a major terrorist attack.
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"--
7) Girl, Stolen
Author
Series
Girl Stolen volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
213 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an impulsive carjacking turns into a kidnapping, Griffin, a high school dropout, finds himself more in sympathy with his wealthy, blind victim, sixteen-year-old Cheyenne, than with his greedy father.
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
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
184 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her blind dog slips his collar, twelve-year old Lily meets Salma Santiago, a young Hispanic girl whose migrant family are in Maine for the blueberry-picking season, and, based partly on their mutual love of dogs, the two forge a friendship while painting bee boxes for Lily's grandfather--but as the Blueberry Queen pageant approaches Lily and Selma are confronted with some of the hard truths of prejudice and migrant life.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After years of homeschooling and a surgery that helped her lose hundreds of pounds, Libby enters high school but soon becomes entangled in a cruel game with Jack, a boy whose disability prevents him from recognizing faces.
12) Miss Spitfire
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.
13) The cay
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1969]
Edition
[1st ed.]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
141 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old Negro are stranded on a small desert island.
Author
Series
A Jack Ryan novel volume 22
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In this previously untold adventure, a young Jack Ryan goes behind the Iron Curtain to seek the truth about a potential Soviet defector in the most shocking entry in Tom Clancy's #1 New York Times bestselling series"--
"1985 -- A top secret F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert. The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets. In East Berlin, a mysterious...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 277 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of the first deaf and blind graduate of Harvard Law School, tracing her refugee parents' harrowing experiences in the Eritrea-Ethiopian war and her development of innovations that enabled her remarkable achievements.
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.
17) Augustown
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of Marlon James's Man Booker Prize-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, Augustown--set in the backlands of Jamaica--is a magical and haunting novel of one woman's struggle to rise above the brutal vicissitudes of history, race, class, collective memory, violence, and myth. Ma Taffy may be blind but she sees everything. So when her great-nephew Kaia comes home from school in tears, what she senses sends a deep fear running through...
Author
Series
An Irish village mystery volume 5
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Family is everything to Siobhan: her five siblings; her dear departed mother for whom the family business, Naomi's Bistro, is named; and now her fiance, Macdara Flannery. So precious is her engagement that Siobhan wants to keep it just between the two of them for a little longer. But Macdara is her family, which is why when his cousin Jane frantically calls for his help, Siobhan is at his side as the two garda rush from Kilbane to the rural village...
Author
Series
Publisher
Spotlight
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Reinforced library bound ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Fred goes on a mystery date with Charlene and encounters several mysterious monsters, and the Mystery, Inc. team travels to Rome, Italy to find out more about the stolen items in Paris and Moscow.