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Get the Summary of Andrew Leland's The Country of the Blind in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Country of the Blind" by Andrew Leland is a comprehensive exploration of the multifaceted experience of blindness. Leland delves into the varied perceptions and realities of being blind, from the common misconception of total darkness to the actual diversity of visual experiences among the blind. He shares his personal...
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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First edition.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Houston and his younger brother Robbie dream of becoming astronauts, but when Houston is accepted to the Junior Astronaut Recruitment Program he realizes that Robbie's dream may not be achievable due to his cerebral palsy, so he makes a new plan that shoots for the stars.
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Spanning the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, "Midge's Irish" delves into the life of Warren Le Blanc, a state hospital patient who resisted institutionalization for years. His life takes an unexpected turn when he falls in love with Midge McSorley, a fellow patient on a different unit. What follows is a tumultuous 14-year relationship characterized by ups and downs. Warren eventually finds his way out of the hospital, changes his first name, and begins...
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On the day of my birth, my mother had already decided that she wanted to give me away. She had made this decision even though she had not yet known the extent of the problems that would confront me. As it turned out, there were many, including the fact that I was not born a beautiful baby.Actually, I was considered to be quite ugly, disfigured by a cleft lip and palate that left a gaping hole in the middle of my face. In addition, I was born deaf,...
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Imagine everything that you thought you knew about life being challenged. You now question the best way to do things. You look at what makes things easy or difficult with a new perspective. Now imagine that the person responsible for this is your child.
Typically, that is not abnormal. We always look at things with a sense of wonder and magic when our children are small. Now consider what it would be like if this stage of life never stopped.
This...
6) Jimmy
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When Jim Sayre was a totally blind child growing up in Zanesville, Ohio, in the 1940s and '50s, blind children were typically steered into occupations caning chairs or tuning pianos. "Or selling pencils on street corners," Jim says. No way he was going to settle for that.
With the help of a loving mother who saw the wisdom of integrating a blind child into the sighted world and Jim's own innate determination--he might call it stubbornness--Jim...
7) My Ricans
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My Ricans is the story of our family, who migrated to the U.S. mainland during the great migration of the 1920s. It chronicles the family's experiences in a journey that lasted over fifty years and culminated in their return to the Island they called home, Puerto Rico.
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"In the Blink of an Eye" follows one man's battle with ALS. He lives by these quotes, some of which are original Tonyisms:
"ALS is so ugly in so many ways."
"You have no idea how strong you are, until being strong is the only choice you have" – Bob Marley
"I can say F--- to ALS, our Government, and big Pharma."
"You will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory." – Dr Seuss
"Someday I won't have ALS and I will be free."...
9) Unstoppable
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Limitless With Autism
Matthew Kenslow never gave Autism the prerogative to stop him from achieving what would bring him joy in life-spreading acceptance of others' disabilities and teaching classrooms of students. Notwithstanding, life has brought him a world of setbacks and standstills, causing him to put in extra effort to prove his competence and helping him learn how to go through things rather than around them.
Unstoppable will take...
10) Sierra's Journey
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Sierra was always an exceptional child. She was the child every parent hoped for. From the time she was two, she already knew she wanted to be the next Jenny Finch. She started T-ball at four years old on the pitcher's mound, and that is where she played until she was nineteen when she was in a horrific car accident. She had a team of about twenty doctors, and every one of them warned us that people didn't make it through this kind of accident. But...
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Este libro muestra cómo se configura el concepto de capital emocional desde las experiencias de padres y madres de niños y niñas con discapacidad. Esta investigación cualitativa con enfoque narrativo-biográfico, entrecruzó argumentos empíricos y teóricos desde lo personal-familiar, la salud y la educación. Como padres y madres, nuestras vivencias respecto a la discapacidad dieron sentido a esta lógica, justo en ese orden: una ruptura ideológica...
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The World Health Organization has reported that approximately 16% of the global population, over 1.3 billion people worldwide, had some form of disability, and that an additional 190 million people (3.8% of people over 15 years of age) experience serious difficulties in functioning normally on a daily basis. In the US, 61 million, or 26% of, adult Americans have some form of disability, and 2 in 5 adults over the age of 65 have a disability. It has...
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The inspiring and thrilling combat memoir of the only Army Ranger serving in direct combat operations with a prosthetic limb.
On October 3, 2005, Kapacziewski and his soldiers were coming to the end of their tour in Northern Iraq when their convoy was attacked by enemy fighters. A grenade fell through the gunner's hatch and exploded, shattering Kapacziewski's right leg below the knee, damaging his right hip, and severing a nerve and artery in his...
14) First flight
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Emma and her family are going to visit Aunt Betty who has a farm, but Emma has never flown before and she is a little nervous.
15) Mighty Mara
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"Welcome to Sametown where everyone and everything is ... well ... the same. Except our protagonist: Mighty Mara! She's a little different. While her classmates sign up and ready their performances for the school talent show, Mara musters up the courage to also sign up--but unlike the others, she's going to dance, dance, dance! The only problem is, everyone encourages her not to! Mara won't let her classmates' heckling and teacher's dissuading rock...
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Marvel
Pub. Date
2022.
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First edition.
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English
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"The Courage to Dream tells the story of Assata, a young Wakandan who hopes to become one of the Dora Milaje, the warriors who protect Wakanda. But because of Assata's disability, she lets go of her dream. Assata's light shows through all the same, introducing her to surprising friends: the princess Shuri, the warrior Okoye, and the powerful M'Baku. But only Assata can give herself what she's missing: the courage to dream."--
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Español
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En 1882 una niña que enfermó con una fiebre que estuvo a punto de morir. Ella sobrevivió, pero la quedaron secuelas, no podía ver ni oír. Debido a que no podía oír tampoco podía hablar. "Historia de mi vida" es el relato extraordinario de Helen Keller, una mujer sorda y ciega que, a pesar de sus desafíos, se convirtió en un símbolo de superación y logros. En esta obra, Keller comparte sus experiencias desde la infancia hasta la adultez,...
18) Why
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Russian
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Ekaterina Limonova, who pursued higher education and achieved professional success without even suspecting that her hearing ability was well below average, embarks on "Why," a journey through her life experiences, from her difficult childhood in the Soviet Union in the 1980s to her current life in Great Britain, where she was finally diagnosed with hearing loss, as well as one of her children.
With her training and experience as a specialized speech...
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Publisher
Free Spirit Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Nine-year-old Jayden loves the outdoors, but his mother is nervous about him playing in their neighborhood. With the help of his neighbor Mr. Curtis, can Jayden help Mama see that nature and beauty are all around?"--
20) Godkiller
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Godkiller volume 1
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"As a child, Kissen saw her family murdered at the whim of a fire god. Now Kissen makes a living killing gods, and she enjoys it. That is until she discovers a god she cannot kill: Skedi, a small god of white lies, has somehow bound his life to that of a young noble girl, and they desperately need Kissen's help. Joined by a disillusioned knight on a secret quest, the trio must travel to the ruined city of Blenraden, where the last of the wild gods...
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