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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,...
2) Blindness
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Co
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 21
Description
An epidemic of blindness strikes a city and the result is chaos, the government issuing shoot-to-kill orders. Much of the action is seen through the eyes of a woman who claims to be blind so she won't be separated from her husband. A look at how people behave under stress. By the author of The History of the Siege of Lisbon.
3) Dead eyes
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
First there were roses and the notes in her mailbox signed simply, "Admirer." Then, the accident. One minute Chris Callaway was one of Hollywood's brightest rising stars, starting a new picture that could send her career skyrocketing; the next, she was falling from the unfinished deck of her beautiful new Malibu beach house...waking up blind, uncertain whether she would ever see again.
An optimist and a fighter, Chris is determined not to let anyone...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
After writing a story in Amish country, New York journalist Phillip Bradley returns to Lancaster County haunted by the memory of soft-spoken widow he met there, but winning her heart is just the first step in a long journey that will require him surrendering his own culture.
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
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.
7) On the run
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When a persistent youth offender is caught yet again, he is sentenced to community service as the partner to a blind runner.
8) Girl, stolen
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
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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