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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.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.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.By Michael Morpurgo. 2002
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.By Dean R Koontz. 2000
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.By Laura Fay Robbie. 2006
A heart-warming account about laughter, tears, and the importance of facing life's obstacles with courage. A true story about a…
memorable vacation, one big brother who daydreams, an important epiphany, and a hilarious little boy named Chase. 2006.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.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.By Catherine Cookson. 1999
Set at the end of the Second World War, a young man, blinded in action and a decorated war hero,…
returns home and strives to put his life back in order the best way he can. 1999.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.