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21) Bear
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Cookies & Comics | New Beginnings
Graded Summer - 3rd/4th Grade
Understanding Blindness & Low Vision - Chapter Books
Graded Summer - 3rd/4th Grade
Understanding Blindness & Low Vision - Chapter Books
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"Bear is a service dog who would do anything for his owner and best friend Patrick who is blind. But when Bear suddenly loses his vision, he worries he's lost his purpose in life--protecting Patrick! Following the misguided advice from some self-serving raccoons, Bear embarks on a transformative journey to regain his eyesight. Out of both necessity and survival, he learns to tap into his other senses and begins to see the world from a new perspective...
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Disability Pride Month
Disability Pride Month 2023 (WPL-ADULT)
Women's History Month
Women's History Month Reading List--Adults
Disability Pride Month 2023 (WPL-ADULT)
Women's History Month
Women's History Month Reading List--Adults
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When she was 19 months old, Helen Keller (1880-1968) suffered a severe illness that left her blind and deaf. Not long after, she also became mute. Her tenacious struggle to overcome these handicaps-with the help of her inspired teacher, Anne Sullivan-is one of the great stories of human courage and dedication. In this classic autobiography, first published in 1903, Miss Keller recounts the first 22 years of her life, including the magical moment at...
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"A probing, witty, and deeply insightful history of blindness--in Western culture and literature, and in the author's own experience--that ranges from Homer to Milton to Braille to Stevie Wonder. M. Leona Godin begins her fascinating, wide-ranging study with an exploration of how the idea of sight is inextricably linked with knowledge and understanding; how "blindness" has, for millennia, been used as a metaphor for ignorance; and how, in metaphorical...
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"In this title, readers learn common symptoms and behaviors of blindness and how it affects kids at school and in relationships. Text includes suggestions on how to be a kind and respectful friend to someone who is blind and appropriate activities kids can enjoy together. A famous person who has overcome the challenges of blindness is highlighted."--Amazon.com
28) Shades of Grey
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Chromatacia novels volume 1
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The New York Times bestseller hailed as “a rich brew of dystopic fantasy and deadpan goofiness” (The Washington Post) from the author of the Thursday Next series and Red Side Story.
Welcome to Chromatacia, where the societal hierarchy is strictly regulated by one's limited color perception. In this world, you are what you can see. But Eddie Russet wants to move up. When he and his father relocate to the...
Welcome to Chromatacia, where the societal hierarchy is strictly regulated by one's limited color perception. In this world, you are what you can see. But Eddie Russet wants to move up. When he and his father relocate to the...
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Choctaw author Tim Tingle tells the story of his famly's move from Oklahome Choctaw country to Pasadena, Texas. Spanning fifty years, the book describes the problems encounted by his Choctaw grandmother from her orphan days at an Indian boarding school to hardships she met at her new home on the Texas Gult Coast. It is the story of one family's efforts to honor the past while struggling to gain a foothold in modern America.
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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 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.
31) Blindness
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A city is ravaged by an epidemic of 'white blindness.' Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where societal norms quickly breaks down. Criminals and the physically powerful prey upon the weak, hording the meager food rations and committing horrific acts. Inside the hospital is one eyewitness to the nightmare. Following her husband into the hospital, a woman whose sight is unaffected by the plague...
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Polish
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To powieść o nieustającym poszukiwaniu miłości, wyzwaniach, które stoją przed samotną matką i nie zawsze prostych relacjach z dorosłymi - jakże różnymi córkami (co nie dziwi, skoro mają trzech ojców...). Paryż - stolica miłości i sztuki. Isabelle McAvoy, młoda stażystka w galerii malarstwa zakochuje się bez pamięci w bogatym, znacznie starszym arystokracie. W jego zamku w Normandii przeżywa cudowny sen na jawie. Aż dowiaduje...
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Welcome to Chromatacia, where for as long as anyone can remember society has been ruled by a Colortocracy. Social hierachy is based upon one's limited color perception. society is dominated by color. In this world, you are what you can see, and Eddie Russett, a better-than-average red perception wants to move up.
34) Blind
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Five years after best-selling novelist Bill Oakland loses both his wife and his sight in a terrible car crash, socialite Suzanne Dutchman is forced to read to Bill in an intimate room as a plea bargain for being associated with her husband₂s insider trading. As their sessions evolve, a passionate affair ensues, forcing them both to question whether it₂s ever too late to find true love.
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Ada Lace adventures volume 2
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Eight-year-old Ada Lace is determined to win the robot-building competition but is struggling with her art class so she soon wonders if there might be a way to use both science and art to solve her problems.
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Deano was a star soccer player at her school in Jamaica, but things are so different at her American school. The boys have a "No Girls Allowed" rule and she hates it! But Jay is different from the other boys in her class. He reads with his fingers and has a cool dog he gets to bring to school. And he loves soccer, too! There's just one thing Deano can't figure out: How can Jay play soccer if he can't see?
38) Ecstasy
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About to lose her eyesight, schoolteacher Jeannetta Rollins believes that her only hope lies in surgeon Mason Fenwick, a doctor who has left medicine because of an unavoidable tragedy, and risks everything to get him to operate.
40) Second sight 1
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This taut psychological thriller introduces Ross Tanner, a hotshot police detective who lives for the thrill of the chase - while desperate to conceal a terrifying secret: he's losing his vision.