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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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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.
4) Girl, stolen
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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When an impulsive carjacking becomes and accidental 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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
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College student Mike Mavic, having traveled to Steepleton to follow up on news that the body of Christopher Creed, who disappeared four years earlier, was found, realizes the people in the town have underlying streaks of meanness and the only person who cares about Christopher anymore is his younger brother, Justin, who is teetering on the edge of sanity.
8) Hannah
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Hannah, a blind girl living in the late nineteenth century, doesn't go to school, until a new teacher tells her about the Braille method of reading for the blind.
10) Stargone John
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
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Six-year-old John, emotionally withdrawn and resistant to traditional teaching methods, experiences ridicule and punishment at his one-room schoolhouse, until an old retired teacher reaches out from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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 21
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
960L
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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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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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.
17) Blind spot
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"Tricia Farni was last seen alive the night she fought with Roswell Hart--a night Roz can't remember. Can Roz piece together the events of that night, despite the eye disease that robs her of most of her vision, in order to clear her name and find a murderer?"--
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Ruby wants to be a teacher, but after her father's death in a logging accident she must quit school to care for her ten brothers and sisters, until a chance meeting with a lonely old blind woman transforms her life.
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Series
Joey Pigza books volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
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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