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Physically handicapped

Louis Braille

Jennifer Bryant

Text and photographs present the biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who originated the raised dot system of reading and writing used by the blind throughou

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Mind's Eye

Paul Fleischman

A novel in play form in which sixteen-year-old Courtney, paralyzed in an accident, learns about the power of the mind from an elderly blind woman who takes Courtney on an imaginary journey to Italy us

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Scorpion Shards

Neal Schusterman

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The Weirdo

Theodore Taylor

Seventeen-year-old Chip Clewt fights to save the black bears in the Powhatan National Wildlife Refuge.

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Tangerine

Edward Bloor

Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged

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Blindness

Elaine Landau

Examines blindness including its causes and effects, prevention, and methods of coping.

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Deafness

Elaine Landau

Examines deafness, including its causes and effects and methods of coping with the condition.

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Ray Charles

David Ritz

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The Weirdo

Theodore Taylor

Seventeen-year-old Chip Clewt fights to save the black bears in the Powhaten National Wildlife Refuge.

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Freak the Mighty

W. R. Philbrick

At the beginning of eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak, whose birth defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind, find that when they combine forces they make a po

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