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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
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This heartwarming tale of love, life, and friendship by the Newbery Medalist tells the story of how Granny Torrelli's warm words and secret recipes mend a rift between 12-year-old Rosie and her best friend.
With the help of her wise old grandmother, twelve-year-old Rosie manages to work out some problems in her relationship with her best friend, Bailey, the boy next door.
5) Girl, stolen
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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When an impulsive carjacking turns into a kidnapping, Griffin, a high school dropout, finds himself more in sympathy with his wealthy, blind victim, sixteen-year-old Cheyenne, than with his greedy father.
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Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Nine-year-old Sarah is excited about summer vacation, but she faces unexpected crises when her best friend Paige becomes old enough to join a local girls' clique, and when she makes choices which affect her relationship with an elderly blind neighbor.
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Aggie and Ben stories volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Ben and Aggie are playing in the park when she chases a ball and does not return, but after looking for her and worrying about her, Ben speaks with his blind friend, Mr. Thomas, who suggests a different approach.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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Fifth-grader Cally Louise Fisher stops talking, partly because her father and brother never speak of her mother who died a year earlier, but visions of her mother, friendships with a homeless man and a disabled boy, and a huge dog ensure that she still communicates.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
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Eighth-grade star quarterback Nate Brodie's family is feeling the stress of the troubled economy, and Nate is frantic because his best friend Abby is going blind, so when he gets a chance to win a million dollars if he can complete a pass during the halftime of a New England Patriot's game, he is nearly overwhelmed by the pressure to succeed.
11) As brave as you
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
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When Genie and his older brother spend their summer in the country with their grandparents, he learns a secret about his grandfather and what it means to be brave.
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Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
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Raised to be a thief, blind orphan Peter Nimble, age ten, steals from a mysterious stranger three pairs of magical eyes, that lead him to a hidden island where he must decide to become a hero or resume his life of crime.
13) Things not seen
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Things not seen volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
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When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible, he and his parents and his new blind friend Alicia try to find out what caused his condition and how to reverse it. He must find out why this is happening to him.
14) Truesight
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Series
Truesight trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In a distant frontier world, thirteen-year-old Jacob is uncertain of his future in a community that considers blindness a virtue and "Seers" as aberrations.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 118
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Kristy's family has a new Labrador retriever puppy who is being trained to be a guide dog for the blind.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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Having survived being blinded and shipwrecked on a tiny Caribbean island with the old Black man Timothy, twelve-year-old white boy Phillip is rescued and hopes to regain his sight with an operation. Alternate chapters follow the life of Timothy from his days as a young cabin boy.
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Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Describes a day in the life of a seeing eye dog, from going with his owner to the grocery store and post office, to visiting a class of school children, and playing ball. Also describes their three-hundred mile walk from Boston to New York.
19) The seeing stick
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Relates how an old man teaches the emperor's blind daughter to see.
20) The might
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Pub. Date
2022
Description
"Hirka has been sent to the world of the blind, a powerful and immortal people whom she has been taught to fear since infancy--and who now see her as their only chance to reignite a thousand-year-old war. The blind will use Hirka's ability to travel between worlds to return to Ym, the land where Hirka grew up and where the blind were betrayed all those years ago. And this time, they will prevail"--Amazon