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Adults
Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
by Haben Girma
Haben grew up spending summers with her family in the enchanting Eritrean city of Asmara. There, she discovered courage as she faced off against a bull she couldn't see, and found in herself an abiding strength as she absorbed her parents'...
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Children 3-6 Children 6-10
Knots on a Counting Rope
by Bill Martin Jr. (Author), John Archambault (Author), Ted Rand (Illustrator)
By the warmth of a campfire beneath a starry night sky, a Navajo youth named Boy-Strength-of-Blue-Horses listens to the tale...
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Children 3-6
The Seeing Stick
by Jane Yolen (Author), Daniela Terrazzini (Illustrator)
Hwei Min, the only daughter of the emperor of China, has been blind since birth. Her father offers a reward to anyone who can find a cure for the little girl. It seems that no one from magicians to physicians can help her. Then, one day a...
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Children 3-6 Children 6-10
My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay
by Cari Best (Author), Vanessa Brantley-Newton (Illustrator)
Zulay and her three best friends are all in the same first grade class and study the same things, even though Zulay is blind. When their teacher asks her students what activity they want to do on Field Day, Zulay surprises everyone when she...
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Children 3-6 Children 6-10
The Black Book of Colors
by Menena Cottin (Author), Rosana Faría (Illustrator), Elisa Amado (Translator)
Living with the use of one's eyes can make imagining blindness difficult, but this innovative title invites readers to imagine living without sight through remarkable illustrations done with raised lines and descriptions of colors based on...
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Children 3-6 Children 6-10
Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille
by Jen Bryant (Author), Boris Kulikov (Illustrator)
Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted more than anything was to be able to read.
Even at the school for the blind in Paris, there...
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Children 3-6 Children 6-10
When Charley Met Emma
by Amy Webb (Author), Merrilee Liddiard (Illustrator)
When Charley goes to the playground and sees Emma, a girl with limb differences who gets around in a wheelchair, he doesn't know how to react at first. But after he and Emma start talking, he learns that different isn't bad, sad, or strange--different...