What is it like to live in the world with a lack of eyesight? Find out in these 12 stories for adults and teens that offer unique takes on this point of view.
When Nazis occupy Paris, blind 12-year-old Marie-Laure and her father flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where her reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. Meanwhile, in a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner is growing…
Genie's summer is full of surprises. The first is that he and his big brother, Ernie, are leaving Brooklyn for the very first time to spend time with their grandparents all the way in Virginia. The second surprise comes when Genie figures out that…
Verbose and energetic, Ollie lives as a hermit in a backwoods cabin with his mother and rarely sees other people, as encountering electricity triggers his epileptic fits. Moritz is a humorless German boy born with no eyes, a weak heart that requires…
Kendra Michaels was blind the first 20 years of her life. A miraculous new procedure changed that, but her other senses remain keener than any normal person's. When Adam Lynch - not an FBI agent per se, but a consultant who specializes in getting…
While waiting in the car for her stepmother to get antibiotics for her pneumonia, blind 16-year-old Cheyenne is accidentally kidnapped by Griffin, a hard-edged teenager who steals the family's Escalade. While her blindness makes her less of a…
On his first day at a new school, blind 16-year-old Will Porter accidentally groped a girl on the stairs, sat on another student in the cafeteria, and somehow drove a classmate to tears. High school can only go up from here, right? When an…
Told at age 20 that he would eventually become blind, Robert Hine, aided by his wife, coped with diminishing sight, finishing graduate school, progressing in his academic career and even finding ironic humor in the notion of research by a person of…
In this blend of memoir and pointed cultural criticism, novelist, essayist, and translator Kleege describes how she has come to terms with being blind in a world that fears and stigmatizes blindness since her diagnosis in 1967 at age 11 with macular…
Maggie’s still getting used to middle school. One of her teachers is, too. Mr. Carlson, her new science teacher, is blind, and is working with a guide dog for the first time. Scout is a love of a German shepherd and really wants to do his job, but…
When Bobby Philips discovers that he has turned invisible overnight, he doesn't know what to do. The 15-year-old and his parents live with the worry of what happens if they can't figure out how to reverse his condition. When Bobby ventures out of…
"It was 12:30 a.m. on 9/11 and Roselle whimpered at Michael's bedside. As a trained guide dog, when she was 'on the clock' nothing could faze her. But that morning, without her harness, she was free to be scared." In Thunder Dog, follow Michael and…
In this conclusion to the award-winning Joey Pigza trilogy, Joey has become the voice of reason in his highly dysfunctional family now that he's finally able to control his hyperactivity. But when his hyper, self-destructive father makes outrageous…
