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When Laura gets a letter from Malcolm, her new Australian penfriend, she is excited and shows his letter to all…
her friends at school. But when the letters suddenly stop, Laura discovers that Malcolm is blind. Can they still be penfriends, and how can their letters be private and confidential? Grades K-3 and older readers. 2003.
Tommy is a young boy with sight loss and a big imagination. When he's told he's too young to get…
a guide dog, he imagines what it would be like to have other animals as a guide, but soon learns the pitfalls that come with each one.
Alex is an eight-year-old boy who likes milk shakes, swimming, and funny jokes, but his favourite thing is sailing. Includes…
sailing terms. This book Includes Braille, print and raised line drawings which are enhanced by tactile objects. Grades K-3 and older readers. 2011.
This story of Skip the dog describes his life until he becomes a guide dog for Natalie. This book Includes…
Braille, print and raised line drawings which are enhanced by tactile objects. Grades K-3 and older readers. 2007.
Davey, a blind student, refuses all help from his new classmates, even while playing kickball at recess, until they find…
a way to help without doing everything for him. Grades K-3. 2007.
Katie and her guide dog Cocoa go to a sports camp run by the Ontario Blind Sports Association. They spend…
a week with other blind and low-vision kids (and some of the instructors), learning judo, lawn bowling, goalball, wrestling, and track and field. Based on the author's own experiences at sports camp. The story is written in both Braille and print and is illustrated in raised line drawings. Grades K-3. 2008.
Katie and her guide dog Cocoa experience a typical day at school. The story is written in both Braille and…
print and is illustrated in raised line drawings. Grades K-3. 2005.
Katie, Daniel and their guide dogs Cocoa and Dory spend a day at the zoo. They are taken on a…
tour where they stroke birds and meet monkeys. Includes tactile illustrations, presented in print and Braille. Grades K-3. 2005.
Abby is bored while waiting for her mother to finish her shopping, until she meets Joanna and her guide dog,…
Charlie. Though he is great at helping Joanna to "see", he can't help with choosing a special outfit for an important and mysterious event. When Abby saves the day, she also discovers that wishing for rainbows can be magical. Grades K-3 and old readers. 2005.
Blinded in an accident, Bun Bendle stumbles one day into an underground tomb containing a shield and a beautiful ancient…
sword. As he touches the hilt, his whole body is gripped by an incredible, centuries-old power. It is a power that will change Bun's life forever. Grades 2-4. 2002.
At the age of three, to stop a fast-spreading cancer, Bartholomew Lampion was blinded by eye surgery. Barty grows up…
a prodigy, and at the age of 13, he regains his sight and sets out to transform the lives of everyone around him.
When Emma Silver loses her eyesight in a nightmare accident, she must relearn everything, from walking across the street to…
recognizing her own sisters to imagining colours. One of seven children, Emma used to be the invisible kid, but now it seems everyone is watching her. And just as she’s about to start high school and try to recover her friendships and former life, one of her classmates is found dead in an apparent suicide. Fifteen and blind, Emma has to untangle what happened and why—in order to see for herself what makes life worth living. For senior high readers. 2014.
Blind from birth, Caitlin Decter receives a signal-processing retinal implant to see, but the technology also gives her the ability…
to "see" the digital data streams of the World Wide Web, and an extraordinary presence within it. Called Webmind, it befriends Caitlin and wants to learn about her world, but Watch - the secret government agency that monitors the Internet for threats to the United States - also discovers it. Watch is convinced that Webmind represents a risk to national security, but Caitlin believes in Webmind's capacity for compassion - and she'll do anything to protect her friend. Strong language. 2010.
Although Caitlin Decter is blind, she can effortlessly surf the Internet by following its complex paths clearly in her mind.…
When she receives an implant to restore her sight, instead of seeing reality, the landscape of the World Wide Web explodes into her consciousness. Followed by "Watch". 2009. (The WWW trilogy ; 1)
That summer in Seattle she needed a job. She didn't have any money and the man she was going to…
marry at the end of the summer was in officers' training school, and he didn't have any money either. She'd seen something in the paper: Help wanted - Reading to blind man, and a telephone number. The short story "Cathedral" from the collection "Where I'm calling from". 1993. Uniform title: Where I'm calling from.
Gina isn't looking forward to the weekend - instead of spending it at her best friend's house, her mother's friends…
are visiting with their son, Ricky, who's blind. She'll be stuck in the house with him while the adults go to a high school reunion. How is she supposed to act around Ricky when she's never even met a blind person before? Grades 4-7. 2004.
Wildwood, New Jersey police lieutenant Kelly O'Shaughnessy is stymied over the disappearance of young women. When an old man's untimely…
death leads investigative consultant Sherry Moore, blind and with the extraordinary ability to "see" the deceased's last eighteen seconds of memory by touching the corpse, to Wildwood, O'Shaughnessy's desperation forces her to accept Sherry's help, but not without consequence. Descriptions of sex, explicit violence and strong language. 2006.
Où qu'elle soit, Anna se taille une réputation de maladroite. Son monde commence à changer lorsqu'elle découvre ce qui est…
à l'origine de sa maladresse. Pour les jeunes de 10 à 14 ans. 1998.
Blind sixteen-year-old Parker Grant navigates friendships and romantic relationships, including a run-in with a boy who previously broke her heart,…
while coping with her father's recent death. For junior and senior high readers. 2015.