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Tells the life story of Louis Braille, the nineteenth-century man who lost his sight at the age of three and developed an alphabet for blind people when he was fifteen.

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 most of all was to be able to read. And so he invented his own alphabet - a whole new system for writing that he could read by touch.

As you read these young adults' stories, you'll learn about the laws that protect their rights. You'll discover the history behind these laws, and you'll find out exactly which rights are protected.

Life long ago on the prairie was a big adventure. This book tells you what it was like to be there.

A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write.

When her father gives her a bag of colorful, sugary gumdrops to eat, a little girl decides to plant them instead. (Printed text accompanied with braille).

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"Follows the everyday lives of several blind school children, describing how they use Braille to read, how they use their other senses to navigate their environment, what they do for fun, and how being blind does not stop them from pursuing their dreams"--Provided by publisher.

Looks at the life of Louis Braille, telling the story of how he came to invent the Braille system of type for blind readers.

A simple biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who as a boy created a system by which the blind could read.