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42) The Cay
Author
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 in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
43) Melanie
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
When her grandfather goes in search of one who can heal her of her blindness and fails to return, Melanie follows and rescues him from a hideous troll.
44) Carver
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
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.
45) Blind flight
Author
Publisher
Watts
Pub. Date
1980
Language
English
Description
Flying with her uncle in his small plane, 13-year-old Debbie who has been blind for about a year must suddenly take control of the plane when her uncle loses consciousness.
48) Follow my Leader
Author
Language
English
Description
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.
49) Blind
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After a horrific accident leaves her blind, fifteen-year-old Emma, one of seven children, eagerly starts high school as a sophomore, and finds that nearly everything has changed--sometimes for the better.
50) Cadence
Author
Series
American anthem series volume 2
Publisher
W Pub. Group
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Author
Series
American anthem series volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
53) Prelude
Author
Series
American anthem series volume 1
Publisher
W Pub. Group
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
54) Mandy Sue Day
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Using her senses of taste, hearing, touch, and smell, a blind girl enjoys a special day on the farm.
55) Things not seen
Author
Series
Things not seen volume 1
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
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.
56) Stargone John
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
1992, ©1990
Language
English
Description
Six-year-old John, emotionally withdrawn and resistant to traditional teaching methods, experiences ridicule and punishment at his one-room schoolhouse, until an old retired teacher reaches out from her blindness to share with him the world of reading and writing.
60) The blind colt
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the badlands, where the ground is soft but the slopes are steep and the vegetation is scarce, it can be difficult for a wild horse to survive. Even more so if that horse is blind. But this young colt has his strong mare of a mother looking out for him, and his other senses help him smell the friendly prairie dogs, feel for rough terrain, and hear whenever wolves draw near-- sometimes well before anyone else in his herd. That's not all. A boy...