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The Finn bequest
By Kim Cheshire. 1978
The Gunners: a novel
By Rebecca Kauffman. 2018
Tangerine
By Edward Bloor. 2001
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer…
despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight. For junior high readers. 2001.Take a good look
By Jacqueline Wilson. 2001
Mary may not be able to see properly, but she's determined to go to the sweet shop alone. Her adventure…
turns into a nightmare as she gets caught up in a robbery, and finds herself the victim of a desperate kidnap. Mary must use all her ingenuity and courage if she is to escape unharmed from her captors. Grades 3-6. 2001.Seeing red
By Lina Meruane, Megan McDowell. 2016
This autobiographical novel describes a young Chilean writer recently relocated to New York for doctoral work who suffers a stroke,…
leaving her blind and increasingly dependent on those closest to her. Fiction and autobiography intertwine in an intense, visceral, and caustic novel about the relation between the body, illness, science, and human relationships. Winner of the Sor Juana IneÌs de la Cruz Prize (Mexico), 2012, and of the Anna Seghers Prize (Germany), 2011. 2016. Uniform title: Sangre en el ojo.Stick Man
By Julia Donaldson. 2008
"Stick Man lives in the family tree with his Stick Lady Love and their stick children three." But it's dangerous…
being a Stick Man. A dog wants to play with him, a swan builds her nest with him. He even ends up on a fire! Join Stick Man on his troublesome journey back to the family tree. Grades P-2. 2008.Star gazing
By Linda Gillard. 2008
Blind since birth, widowed in her twenties, now lonely in her forties, Marianne's passionate nature finds solace and expression in…
music, a love she finds she shares with Keir, a man she encounters on her doorstep one winter's night. Can Marianne trust her feelings for this reclusive stranger who wants to take a blind woman to his island home on Skye, to 'show' her the stars? 2008.Someone wonderful
By Barbara Neil. 1995
This is a story of six people: Grace Teape, her orphaned niece, Lily, and young lover, sculptor Johnny Cochrane; Grace's…
brother, photographer Oliver Cary, his journalist wife Melissa and blind son, Sebastian. 1995.Shot in the dark (Lorimer Sports Stories Ser.)
By Janet M Whyte. 2015
Eighth-grader Micah is psyched to have made the BC junior goalball team -- even though he gets the news while…
dealing with a flare-up of his degenerative eye condition. What he's not happy about is his parents' decision to get him a guide dog, and the possibility of losing his independence. When Liam, a new, first-rate player, joins the goalball team, Micah's frustration with his vision spills onto the court. He is rude to Liam and starts a fight with another teammate, Sebastian, after practice. It's only with the help of Cam, his Orientation and Mobility Specialist, that Micah starts to get a handle on his aggression and trust people enough to communicate how he feels. But with the team's big junior tournament quickly approaching, Micah has to reconcile his differences with Liam and Sebastian so as to become a real team player and help his team win the championship. Grades 5-8. 2015.Shadow season: a novel
By Tom Piccirilli. 2009
Ex-cop Finn was left blind by violence, but he can still see the body of his wife, Dani, and a…
crime scene that won't fade from his mind's eye. Now a professor, Finn learns that an isolated girls' prep school can be every bit as dangerous as city streets when he stumbles upon a local girl lying in a graveyard during a raging blizzard. Explicit strong language, explicit descriptions of sex, and explicit descriptions of violence. c2009.Rhubarb
By Craig Silvey. 2004
A poignant and tender sort-of-love story about two damaged people tenuously connecting. Eleanor is blind and lives with her reclusive…
mother. Ewan is a cello player with agoraphobia. She is drawn to him through his music but cannot understand the difficulty he faces in forming a friendship. He does not understand her past nor the impact his music has on her. Amidst the heat of a Fremantle summer they stumble towards each other. 2004.One leaf, two leaves, count with me!
By John Micklos. 2017
Count your way through the seasons! In spring, the tree’s leaves appear, one by one. By summer, there’s a glorious…
canopy. And when autumn winds blow, leaves fly from the tree, one after another, leading us into winter. There’s a world of activity to spy in and around this beautiful tree as the wild creatures, and one little boy, celebrate the cycles of nature. As little ones count leaves, look for animals, and enjoy the changing seasonal landscape, bouncy rhymes and bold illustrations make learning to count easy--corresponding numerals reinforcing the learning fun. Grades P-2. 2017.Not if I see you first
By Eric Lindstrom. 2015
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.Murder in Grub Street (A sir John Fielding Mystery Ser.)
By Bruce Alexander. 1995
Blind magistrate Sir John Fielding investigates the murders of a publisher and his family. Although a visiting poet was found…
bloodied at the scene, Fielding enlists the help of his ward, Jeremy Proctor, to search for the truth. A shady Christian organization from America becomes suspect after a synagogue is burned. Sequel to "Blind justice". 1995.Mirror, mirror on the wall: the diary of Bess Brennan (Dear America)
By Barry Denenberg. 2002
In 1932 twelve-year-old Bess loses her sight in a sledding accident. Dictating her thoughts to her twin sister, Elin, on…
weekend visits home, Bess keeps a diary describing life at the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts, where she learns to read braille. Grades 5-8. 2002.Lilly makes a friend (First novels ; #29)
By Brenda Bellingham. 2004
Whenever Lilly tries to help Davy, a kindergartener, she keeps getting into trouble. Davy is small, and he's also blind,…
and he wants to play soccer with the bigger boys but he only wants to play his way. Lilly decides that it's up to her to find a way for everyone to play together, but then Davy insists that he has to score a goal! Grades K-3. 2004. (First Novels ; 29)Blindness: a novel
By José Saramago, Giovanni Pontiero. 1997
Written by the Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author. Without cause people are suddenly becoming blind. A doctor's wife is spared but…
pretends she is blind to remain with her husband. Quarantined by the government in an abandoned mental hospital, the blinded citizens create a reign of terror. 1997. Uniform title: Ensaio sobre a cegueira.Knots on a counting rope (Series C Ser.)
By John Archambault, Bill Martin. 1987
In the land of birdfishes
By Rebecca Silver Slayter. 2013
In rural Nova Scotia, two sisters witness the suicide of their mother. Their father, sick with grief, blindfolds the children…
to shield them from the misery of the world. Left that way for years, they are each scarred in their own way: Mara is rendered fully blind, and Aileen partly so. When a neighbour discovers their condition, they are immediately separated for treatment, and it isn’t until decades later, after Aileen’s marriage has fallen apart, that she decides to seek out her lost sister. 2013.Illuminations: a novel
By Tamás Aczél. 1981
A political philosophical novel about Feldheimer, a middle aged Jewish dentist. Once of Budapest, now of London, he has survived…
the Austro-Hungarian secret police, Nazi death camps and a communist party purge. Blinded after a traffic accident, he travels to Vienna to consult a philosopher/ophthalmologist. During his epic journey he meets many other survivors who recount their stories of horror and death. 1981.