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Derrière la façade de mes yeux: récit
By Marie-Claude Bernier. 2010
Laurence Saint-Germain a vingt-quatre ans. Elle travaille, habite un appartement en ville et a un amoureaux. Sa vie ressemble en…
tout point à celle des jeunes femmes de son âge. Enfin, presque, puisque Laurence est aveugle. Elle n'était encore qu'un petit être dans le ventre de sa mère, que déjà, elle était différente. Pour les lecteurs du collégial. 2010.Le coeur en braille
By Pascal Ruter. 2012
Jusque là, pour Victor, une année scolaire c'est du saut à l'élastique sans l'élastique. Ce qu'il préfère ? Écouter les…
Rolling Stones, se gaver de loukoums avec son copain Haïçam, parler mécanique avec son drôle de père Quand il ne s'amuse pas à planquer le PQ des toilettes des filles, il essaie d'échapper aux punitions qui pleuvent sur lui comme la foudre sur le paratonnerre. Mais lorsque Marie-José, génie absolue, déboule dans sa vie un beau jour de contrôle de math, c'est tout son univers qui implose Pourquoi soudainement cette première de la classe, violoncelliste de talent, va-t-elle avoir besoin de lui ? Une amitié étrange va naître entre ces deux ados que tout oppose Vont-ils pouvoir cacher le secret de Marie-José jusqu'au bout ? Années 5-8. 2012.Forward, Shakespeare! (Orca young readers)
By Jean Little. 2005
Seeing Eye dog Shakespeare from "Rescue Pup" (DC30998) is about to be matched up with a blind boy, ready to…
begin his working life. Tim is enraged by his blindness and wants nothing to do with a guide dog. But he is no match for Shakespeare. Grades 4-7. 2005.Diamond in the rough: more fun adventures with Abby Diamond
By Kristie Smith-Armand. 2010
Abby Diamond, Girl Detective, doesn't let her visual impairment stand in the way of solving the mysteries that surround her…
and Neils, Alison, Andrea, Jaxson and Glen. Now Abby and her friends have met up with children and adults who are not what they seem to be. Are the new friends really ghosts or the figment of Abby's imagination? Grades 4-7. c2010.Coming to terms (Cover-to-cover Books)
By Rose Bevins. 2004
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.Adventures of Abby Diamond: out of sight (Abby Diamond)
By Kristie Smith-Armand. 2009
Abby Diamond is an eleven year old girl who loves to solve the mysteries that surround her and her three…
best friends: Neils, Andrea and Alison. Being blind does not stop this girl detective from solving the cases that happen in her home and at school, including anonymous Braille notes, a missing parent, a haunted doll, and neighbourhood break-ins. Grades 4-7. 2009. (Abby Diamond)A different kind of Beauty
By Sylvia McNicoll. 2004
Elizabeth's at it again - she's raising a puppy for the guide dog program. But this time, for sure, she…
won't fall in love. She's too busy, for one thing: it's her first year at high school, she's going to be an aunt, and she's engaged to be married - sort of, maybe, in sixteen years or so, if Scott's still around. Sequel to: "Bringing Up Beauty". For junior and senior high readers. 2004.Crosscurrents (The Nancy Drew files ; #68)
By Carolyn Keene. 1994
When the environmentally concious curator of the National Aquarium in Baltimore turns up dead, Nancy investigates to determine whether the…
killer was an illegal polluter or a jealous associate. Junior High. 1994. (The Nancy Drew files ; 68)Blind
By Rachel DeWoskin. 2014
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.Watch (The www Trilogy Ser.)
By Robert J Sawyer. 2010
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.Wake (WWW trilogy. #1.)
By Robert J Sawyer. 2009
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)Cauchemar aveugle (Ado ; 71. Plus.)
By Fernande D Lamy. 2006
Thierry, quatorze ans, est aveugle depuis lâge de sept ans. Son imagination et sa sensibilité extra-sensorielle lui amènent des images…
cauchemardesques presque toutes les nuits. Il a peur. Peur pour lui mais, surtout, peur pour son fidèle chien guide, devenu lenjeu dun chantage odieux. Ses harceleurs voient en lui une proie utile, facile et sans risque. Seul, quel moyen Thierry a-t-il pour lutter contre toutes les menaces qui pèsent sur lui? Quel chemin prendront-elles pour latteindre? Une fois tous ses sens agressés, que lui restera-t-il pour se défendre? Le fait davoir échoué dans sa tentative pour se protéger lui donne-t-il le droit de se taire? -- 4e de couv.Run
By Kody Keplinger. 2016
Bo Dickinson is a girl with a wild reputation, a deadbeat dad, and an alcoholic mum. Agnes Atwood is legally…
blind. Agnes has never stayed out past 10 p.m., never gone on a date and never broken any of her parents' overbearing rules. Despite everything, Bo and Agnes become best friends. When Bo shows up in the middle of the night, police sirens wailing in the distance, desperate to get out of town, Agnes doesn't hesitate to take off with her. But running away and not getting caught will require stealing a car, tracking down Bo's dad, staying ahead of the authorities, and finally confronting some ugly secrets. For junior and senior high readers. 2016.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.Turtles all the way down
By John Green. 2017
Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there's a hundred thousand dollar reward…
at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Pickett's son, Davis. For junior and senior high readers. 2017.Wild horse summer
By Hope Ryden. 1997
Alison does not want to leave Chicago for a summer on her aunt and uncle's Wyoming ranch - she hardly…
knows her relatives, and she's worried she'll be trapped into watching her cousin Kelly, who is blind. And with her extreme fear of heights, she can't even get on a horse. Over the course of the summer, she confronts the obstacles she faces in both predictable and unpredictable ways. Grades 4-7. 1997.What would Joey do? (Joey Pigza Ser. #3)
By Jack Gantos. 2002
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. Some violence. Sequel to "Joey Pigza loses control" (DC24896). Grades 4-7. 2002.Adventures of Abby Diamond: Abby Diamond in Teenage Wizard and Secrets in the Attic
By Kristie Smith-Armand. 2008
Abby Diamond is an eleven year old girl who loves to solve the mysteries that surround her and her three…
best friends: Neils, Andrea and Alison. Being blind does not stop this girl detective! When Abby and her friends find a diary written in Braille, they learn about the mysteries of the Titanic and World War Two, but who does the diary belong to and what secrets do the girls vow to keep for the rest of their lives? Some descriptions of violence. Grades 4-7. 2009.The million dollar putt
By Dan Gutman. 2006
Edward "Bogie" Bogard may be blind, but he can learn just about anything he sets his mind to, and when…
he goes to a driving range, he discovers that he has a natural golf swing. Because blind golfing is a team sport, he gets Birdie, the kooky asthmatic girl next door, to be his coach. Then someone mysteriously enters Bogie in a golfing tournament with a million-dollar prize. Grades 5-8. 2006.How to Paint a Cat
By Rebecca M Hale. 2014
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? San Francisco isn't the biggest city in the country, but it feels pretty vast when…
you're canvassing its neighborhoods looking for clues to your missing uncle's hidden location. Aided by my two cats, Rupert and Isabella, I try to follow Uncle Oscar's painted clues on a trail that leads from Coit Tower's famous murals through San Francisco's New Deal art--all while hoping my uncle's sudden disappearance is unrelated to the murdered intern at City Hall. Just when it seems our search has hit a wall, we receive some surprising help from beyond. But will it be enough to save us from our own brushes with death? Here's hoping we don't paint ourselves into a corner...