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Skip's dream
By Natalie Kinal. 2007
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.Granny Torrelli makes soup
By Sharon Creech. 2003
Rosie's grandmother knows that the kitchen is a wonderful place for trading confidences and advice in the form of stories.…
When Rosie and her best friend, Bailey, who is vision impaired, have a falling out, Granny Torrelli reunites them through cooking. For grades 5-8. 2003.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.Un fabuleux voyage à Dragons-Village (Les maîtres rêveurs ; #2)
By Liliane Lefrançois. 2007
Depuis sa cabane de pêcheur, à Pré-sur-Mer, Étienne rêve d'un monde imaginaire qu'il nomme Dragons-Village. Alors qu'il y emmène finalement…
son amie Florence qui est non-voyante, Raphaël, orphelin de mère et de père, s'introduit dans leur rêverie et y sème le chaos. Étienne et ses amis réussissent heureusement à vaincre le cauchemar du gamin jaloux en lui faisant changer sa perspective pessimiste sur la vie. Années 2-4. 2007. (Les maîtres rêveurs ; 2)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.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.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.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.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.Follow my leader
By James B Garfield. 1957
After Jimmy is blinded in an accident with a firecracker, he has to relearn all the things he used to…
know. With the help of a determined therapist, he learns to read Braille and to use a cane. Then he's given the chance to have a guide dog. Learning to work with Leader is not easy, but Jimmy tries harder than he ever has before. Grades 4-7. 1957.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)A house divided
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.Cocoa and Katie off to sports camp
By Nancy Newman, Katja Newman. 2008
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.Dans le Vienne des années 1770, un charismatique mais très jalousé docteur, qui soigne par le magnétisme, Franz Anton Mesmer,…
guérit une pianiste virtuose, jeune, belle et aveugle. Cette artiste est la fille unique d'un conseiller de l'impératrice d'Autriche. Ainsi s'amorce l'histoire d'un homme dont "la renommée [a nui] à la réputation" et d'une femme qui, redevenue aveuglée, se consacrera à la musique: interprétation, composition et enseignement, après avoir traversé de grandes épreuves, en particulier familiales, et renoncé à l'amour du bon docteur. 2007, c2008.18 seconds: A Novel
By George D Shuman. 2006
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.Cocoa and Katie off to school
By Nancy Newman. 2005
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.The millionaire tycoon's English rose
By Lucy Gordon. 2007
Independent and strong-willed, Celia Ryland has never let her blindness affect the way she lives her life - she thrives…
on feeling free! Gorgeous Italian Francesco Rinucci has never met a woman with such a zest for life - he loves everything about Celia. But he finds himself wanting to wrap her in cotton wool, to protect his precious English rose from all that's dangerous in the world. Descriptions of sex. 2007.Keep your ear on the ball
By Genevieve Petrillo, Lea Lyon. 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.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.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.