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Having survived being blinded and shipwrecked on a tiny Caribbean island with the old black man, Timothy, twelve year old white Phillip is rescued and hopes to regain his sight with an operation. Alternate chapters follow the life of Timothy from his days as a young cabin boy.
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Hadley is an angry girl: angry at her mother for embezzling money, angry at her estranged older sister, Beth, whom she has to live with while her mother is in jail, angry at having to move to Kentucky away from her friends, and angry at the world because she has retinitis pigmentosa and is slowly going blind; but then she meets Lila, a rescued pit bull who has not responded to anyone else--so if Hadley can train Lila, maybe the dog can get adopted...
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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.
6) Thunder dog: the true story of a blind man, his guide dog, and the triumph of trust at Ground Zero
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Discover how blindness and a bond between dog and man saved lives and brought hope during one of America's darkest days.
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Joey Pigza books volume 3
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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.
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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.
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Maggie Valley series volume 1
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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.
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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.
11) As brave as you
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"When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfires--literally"--
12) The Cay
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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 in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
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Presents the life of Helen Keller, who was left blind and deaf by a high fever as a toddler but, with the help of her teacher Anne Sullivan, overcame her disabilities to go to college and become an advocate, an inspiration, and a role model for blind and deaf people everywhere.
17) Carver
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Macmillan
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c1990
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English
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Blind and fatherless since the age of two, ten-year-old Jon struggles to fit in at his new public school and hide his growing interest in wood carving from his mom who still mourns the death of Jon's father who hoped to become a professional wood carver.
18) Follow my Leader
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After Jimmy is blinded in an accident with a firecracker, he has to relearn all the things he used to know. With the help of a determined therapist, he learns to read Braille and to use a cane. Then he's given the chance to have a guide dog. Learning to work with Leader is not easy, but Jimmy tries harder than he ever has before.
20) Helen Keller
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Chelsea House
Pub. Date
c1987
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English
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Describes how a woman left blind and deaf from a childhood illness overcame her handicaps to become a noted writer and humanitarian.