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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.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.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.Obsession aveugle
By Fernande D Lamy. 2010
Trois mois se sont écoulés depuis les terribles événements vécus par Thierry, un jeune aveugle qui fut la victime sans…
défense du taxage et de l'intimidation d'une petite bande de trafiquants de drogues. École au sein de laquelle il a de la difficulté à s'intégrer, lui qui cache désormais sa peur sous un air hostile et revêche. La charmante Roxanne réussit toutefois à briser ses défenses et à le convaincre de l'accompagner à une sortie entre copains. Malheureusement, les tonalités d'une voix bien connue viennent gâcher ce retour à un semblant de normalité. Suite de "Cauchemar aveugle" (FD04612). Quelques descriptions de nature sexuelle, descriptions régulières de violence, et quelques passages où le langage est grossier. Pour les lecteurs d'école secondaire. 2010.Cauchemar aveugle
By Fernande D Lamy. 2006
Thierry, quatorze ans, est aveugle depuis l'âge 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 l'enjeu d'un 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? Pour les lecteurs d'école secondaire. Quelques descriptions de violence. 2006.Joyeux Noël, Anna (Collection Atout ; #23.)
By Jean Little, Claudine Vivier. 1998
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.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.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.Au cinéma Lux ((Les Uns les autres).)
By Janine Teisson. 1998
Marine et Mathieu fréquentent avec assiduité le Cinéma Lux chaque mercredi soir, pour assister à la séance de ciné club…
organisée par M. Piot, "propriétaire-caissier-ouvreuse-opérateur", encyclopédie vivante du septième art. Le soir de la projection de West Side Story, le film est coupé. Mathieu en profite pour échanger quelques mots avec sa jeune voisine, envoûté par son parfum. Ce dialogue est le début d'une histoire d'amour dans laquelle chacun s'interdit de s'abandonner. L'un et l'autre portent un lourd secret qui semble leur interdire toute forme de bonheur. Pour les lecteurs d’école secondaire. 1998.Le vieil aveugle de Saint-Lazare (Souris noire)
By Thierry Crifo. 2003
Marco a dessiné un vieil aveugle avant même de le rencontrer. Il serait le dernier à l'avoir vu vivant, selon…
les policiers. L'enquête est rapidement bouclée. Marco et ses amis essaient de reconstituer les faits, car ils ne croient pas à la version officielle de la police. (Pour les lecteurs d'école secondaire). c2003. (Souris noire)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.Cammie takes flight
By Laura Best. 2017
Eleven-year-old Cammie Turple grew up with more obstacles than most. Visually impaired and abandoned by her parents, she was raised…
by her tenacious, bootlegging aunt in rural Tanner, Nova Scotia. After Cammie and her best friend, Evelyn Merry, destroy the local moonshine still, forcing Evelyn's abusive, alcoholic father to sober up but nearly killing Evelyn in the process, Cammie convinces her aunt to send her to the Halifax School for the Blind. Cammie navigates life at her new school, armed with an envelope with her estranged mother's address on it. Unsure if she can trust her new friend, Nessa, Cammie enlists her help in tracking her mother down. Will Cammie finally learn why she was abandoned and be able to start her new life? Or will she find too many secrets to count, and realize that she might never put the past behind her? Sequel to "Flying with a Broken Wing". Grades 4-7. 2017.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.Beauty returns (Beauty Ser.)
By Sylvia McNicoll. 2006
Liz is irresistibly drawn to Kyle, and Kyle is drawn to Liz - dragged to her, actually, by Beauty Two,…
his guide dog who is so glad to see her old friend that she starts to forget her training. More problems soon get in their way: Kyle's teacher loads him down with work; Liz's parents think she's too young; and Beauty needs correction or she'll be taken away. Sequel to Bringing up Beauty. For junior high readers. 2006.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.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.