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1) Blindness
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Description
A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Description
"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Good news! Fannie’s back in town—and the town is among the leading characters in her new novel.
Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner; the oddly...
Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner; the oddly...
5) Girl, stolen
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
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.
6) On the run
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When a persistent youth offender is caught yet again, he is sentenced to community service as the partner to a blind runner.
8) Run
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Bo Dickinson is a seventeen-year-old girl from a bad family, but she is also over-protected, legally blind, Agnes Atwood's best friend--so when Bo calls in the middle of the night, desperate to get out of town, Agnes helps her to steal the Atwoods' car and the two girls go on the run, even though Agnes is not sure exactly what they are running from.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
Legally-blind college reporter Mike Mavic hopes to get a story about a body found in Steepleton, believed to be that of long-missing teen Christopher Creed, but finds something odd about the town, including Justin Creed's obsessive drive to learn what really happened to his older brother.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"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"--
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When nineteen-year-old Gem of the Desert People, called Monstrous by the Smooth Skins, becomes the prisoner of the seventeen-year-old Smooth Skin queen, Isra, age-old prejudices begins to fall aside as the two begin to understand each other.
Author
Series
Because you'll never meet me volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Ollie, who has seizures when near electricity, lives in a backwoods cabin with his mother and rarely sees other people, and Moritz, born with no eyes and a heart defect that requires a pacemaker, is bullied at his high school, but when a physician who knows both suggests they begin corresponding, they form a strong bond that may get them through dark times.
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