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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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"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: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
College student Mike Mavic, having traveled to Steepleton to follow up on news that the body of Christopher Creed, who disappeared four years earlier, was found, realizes the people in the town have underlying streaks of meanness and the only person who cares about Christopher anymore is his younger brother, Justin, who is teetering on the edge of sanity.
4) Run
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
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
Series
Because you'll never meet me volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
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.
6) Girl, stolen
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an impulsive carjacking becomes and accidental 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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the political strife and famine of the 1980's, two Ethiopian girls, one Christian and the other Jewish and blind, struggle to overcome many difficulties, including their prejudices about each other, as they make the dangerous journey out of Ethiopia.
8) Blind
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After a horrific accident leaves her blind, fifteen-year-old Emma, one of seven children, eagerly starts high school as a sophomore, and finds that nearly everything has changed--sometimes for the better.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A London teenager who is blind and her younger brother travel to New York to find their missing father, using clues from his notebook.
Laureth Peak's father has taught her to look for recurring events, patterns, and numbers, a skill at which she's remarkably talented. Her secret: she is blind. But when her father goes missing, Laureth and her younger brother Benjamin are thrust into a mystery that takes them to New York City. Surviving will take...
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