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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,...
2) 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: 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
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
The Times wrote of John Wyndham's terrifying post-apocalyptic thriller The Day of the Triffids that it had, "All the reality of a vividly realized nightmare." It may best serve our purposes to tell what triffids actually are. Triffids are odd, interesting little plants that grow in everyone's garden. Triffids are no more than mere curiosities until an event occurs that alters human life: what seems to be a spectacular meteor shower, turns into a bizarre,...
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"As the daughter of a famed author, Isolde Ophelia Goodnight grew up on tales of brave knights and fair maidens. She never doubted romance would be in her future, too. The storybooks offered endless possibilities. And as she grew older, Izzy crossed them off ... Now Izzy's given up yearning for romance. She'll settle for a roof over her head. What fairy tales are left over for an impoverished twenty-six year-old woman who's never even been kissed?"--Page...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brenden McCarthy feels like he's lost everything. His fiancee. His independence. And his passion for life. All due to one tragic misstep while mountain climbing that cost him his sight. But he's about to gain the last thing he ever expected. A big-hearted black Labrador named Nelson who's given one last shot at being a Seeing Eye dog. Both are beyond hope and resigned to live alone. And both are about to experience a bond of friendship that develops...
10) Leading the way
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.
11) Things that are
Author
Series
Things not seen volume 3
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Still adjusting to being blind, Alicia must outwit an invisible man who is putting her family and her boyfriend, who was once invisible himself, in danger.
12) 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
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.
16) Gentle's Holler
Author
Series
Maggie Valley series volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
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.
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.
18) 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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When Royce wakes with no memories and suddenly blind, his situation seems dire. The only thing he remembers is being attacked by shadowy figures...but not the beautiful woman who came to his rescue. Now Iona MacKenzie's every touch drives Royce wild. But when news of a manhunt for him reaches them, Royce must uncover his past if he has any chance of saving himself--and the woman he's falling for...
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