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Day of the triffids trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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The classic postapocalyptic thriller with “all the reality of a vividly realized nightmare” (The Times, London).
Triffids are odd, interesting little plants that grow in everyone’s garden. Triffids are no more than mere curiosities—until an event occurs that alters human life forever.
What seems to be a spectacular meteor shower turns into a bizarre, green inferno that blinds...
Triffids are odd, interesting little plants that grow in everyone’s garden. Triffids are no more than mere curiosities—until an event occurs that alters human life forever.
What seems to be a spectacular meteor shower turns into a bizarre, green inferno that blinds...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"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,...
3) 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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
Legally-blind college reporter Mike Mavic hopes to get a story about a body found in Steepleton, believed to be that of long-missing teen Christopher Creed, but finds something odd about the town, including Justin Creed's obsessive drive to learn what really happened to his older brother.
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.
Author
Series
Because you'll never meet me volume 1
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.
8) Girl, stolen
Author
Series
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano/Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When an impulsive carjacking turns into a 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.
9) Blind
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
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.
10) Nowhere near you
Author
Series
Because you'll never meet me volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
" Ollie and Moritz might never meet, but their friendship knows no bounds. Their letters carry on as Ollie embarks on his first road trip away from the woods--no easy feat for a boy allergic to electricity--and Moritz decides which new school would best suit an eyeless boy who prefers to be alone. Along the way they meet other teens like them, other products of strange science who lead seemingly normal lives in ways Ollie and Moritz never imagined...