[CALIBK12] MIDDLE: All-school book (visually impaired)

[pamanddoug]

>From Orange Co. Public Library Catalog (for audiotape version) SEES BEHIND
TREES by Michael Dorros.   (This is a Native American fiction title.)

Visually impaired Walnut cannot earn his adult name the same way other boys
do, by hitting a target with a bow and arrow. With his highly developed
other senses, however, he earns a new name: Sees Behind Trees. "Dorris takes
on some meaty existential issues here; he does so with grace, bighearted
empathy, and always with crystal-clear vision".--"School Library Journal"
(starred review). A "School Library Journal" and "Publishers Weekly" Best
Book of 1996.


Pam Carrie
Chapman Hills Elementary
Orange Unified S.D.




On 8/8/07 9:49 AM, "Elizabeth Hart" <ehart at csb-cde.ca.gov> wrote:

> One of the projects our administration would like to do this year is
> have the whole school read (or listen to) one book. For the first book,
> they would like to have one of the main characters be blind or visually
> impaired.
> 
> All of our students are blind or visually impaired, and range in age
> from 10 to 22. Most have additional disabilities, including cognitive
> disabilities, so anything beyond a middle school comprehension level is
> probably going to be too difficult.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions for a chapter book, no higher than a
> middle school comprehension level, that might work? Or any suggestions
> for an all-school book, even if the characters aren't visually impaired?
> I know I have seen this type of discussion on LM_NET, but I checked the
> archives and I am obviously not coming up with the right search terms.
> 
> The titles in our library I have come up with so far are--
> 
> Granny Torrelli makes soup by Sharon Creech
> With the help of her wise old grandmother, twelve-year-old Rosie manages
> to work out some problems in her relationship with her best friend,
> Bailey, the boy next door.
> 
> What would Joey do by Jack Gantos
> Joey tries to keep his life from degenerating into total chaos when his
> mother sends him to be home-schooled with a hostile blind girl, his
> divorced parents cannot stop fighting, and his grandmother is dying of
> emphysema.
> 
> Things not seen by Andrew Clements
> When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible, he and
> his parents and his new blind friend Alicia try to find out what caused
> his condition and how to reverse it.
> 
> Sees Behind Trees by Michael Dorris
> A Native American boy with a special gift to "see" beyond his poor
> eyesight journeys with an old warrior to a land of mystery and beauty.
> 
> We also have the book "Tangerine" by 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 his eyesight.) but it is probably not
> appropriate for all of our students.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Elizabeth Hart
> Library Technical Assistant
> California School for the Blind
> Fremont, CA 94536
> ehart at csb-cde.ca.gov
> 
> 
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