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1) Blindness
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Company
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
A stunningly powerful novel of humanity's will to survive against all odds during an epidemic by a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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
Series
Things not seen volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible, he and his parents and his new blind friend Alicia try to find out what caused his condition and how to reverse it.
4) Alive day
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Based in part on a true story, Alive Day is an inspiring, affirming tale about the power of love, loyalty, and living full-out.
A Marine's "Alive Day" celebrates the survival after an almost certain death. It's a time of hope and joy.
But Antwone Carver isn't celebrating. Home from war but not quite whole, Antwone's having trouble dealing with his new physical limitations.
Psychiatrist Brenden McCarthy can relate. He thought he'd lost everything when...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Keystone Stables volume 5
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Although Skye has looked forward to teaching Katie, a blind camper, about riding and handling horses, Katie's bitterness over being blind and her parents' upcoming divorce challenge Skye's ability to teach and to share God's love.
Author
Series
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old tomboy Lucy feels betrayed by everyone when a bobcat stalks the neighborhood, her friend Mora suddenly becomes boy-crazy about Lucy's best friend, and the town considers selling the soccer field where she plays.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1881, sixteen-year-old Mary Ingalls becomes a student at the Iowa College for the Blind, where she studies academic subjects and learns skills that will allow her to be independent and to earn a living.
12) On the run
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When a persistent youth offender is caught yet again, he is sentenced to community service as the partner to a blind runner.
Author
Series
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Lucy, an eleven-year-old tomboy, loves playing soccer and caring for her father, who was blinded by the bomb that killed her mother, but she begins losing control when a new teacher takes over her playground soccer games and housekeeper Inez assumes her chores and starts teaching Bible lessons.
14) Undaunted
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Falling in love with her boss's handsome millionaire neighbor was easy for young Emma Copeland. Despite the vast differences between them, and a past that's left Connor Sinclair reclusive and wary, Emma gambles her heart on a desire that rocks them both. But there's something Connor doesn't know: Emma is responsible for an accident that changed his life forever. Connor lives by rules intended to protect both him and his vast wealth. Emma's innocence...
15) The night we met
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
STARLIGHT: Rand Prescott believes that his chances for happiness are limited because he's going blind. But when he meets Karen McAlister one magical starlit night, he begins to imagine a different future--one filled with love. Karen already knows she wants to be with him for the rest of her life. But Rand refuses to consider marriage; he refuses to bind her to a man who can't see. Brokenhearted, Karen is prepared to walk away, but can Rand really...
16) Hindsight
Author
Series
Kendra Michaels volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dr. Kendra Michaels, blind for the first twenty years of her life before gaining her sight via a revolutionary surgical procedure, is a renowned investigator known for her razor-sharp senses--honed during her years in the dark--and keen deductive abilities. Now her skills are needed uncomfortably close to home. Two staff members have been murdered at a school for the blind where Kendra spent her formative years. But the murders are puzzlingly dissimilar:...
Author
Language
English
Formats
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....
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