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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
A Shine of Rainbows	Lillian Beckwith	*Mairi and Sandy live on a lonely Hebridean island, content with each other, despite their lack of children.* When Mairi brings home Thomas, a child from the orphanage, Sandy is jealous of Mai…	OL10591088W
White Banners	Lloyd C. Douglas	A heartening story of a domestic servant who molded wisely the lives of her employers and their children, knowing that service, whether as servant or king, is a noble destiny. **Lloyd Cassel D…	OL12589W
Heidi	Johanna Spyri	*The famous Swiss classic about Heidi, a five-year-old orphan girl* who goes to live with her grandfather, and his goats, in an alm (Alpine pasture)...up the Alps. **One of the most loved classic…	OL1455042W
Louis Braille	Dennis B. Fradin	A simple biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who as a boy created a system by which the blind could read.	OL15050166W
What is Braille?	Deborah Kent	"Discusses the history of Braille and how the blind community uses it in everyday life"--Provided by publisher.	OL15539093W
All About Braille	Laura S. Jeffrey	Explains how the blind read and write by using a system of raised dots created by Louis Braille and named after him.	OL20582038W
Les yeux noirs	Gilles Tibo	"Un livre magnifique qui nous fait partager la vie d'un enfant aveugle. Une vie vue par de multiples yeux qui voient beaucoup plus que les nôtres ..." Réf. La Sélection de livres pour enfants et adol…	OL24281532W
Wir verstehen uns blind	Franz-Joseph Huainigg,Verena Ballhaus	Katharina lernt den blinden Matthias kennen: Beim Winterschlussverkauf herrscht ein grosses Durcheinander. Niemand sieht das kleine Mädchen, das verzweifelt weint, weil es die Eltern verloren hat. Nu…	OL24308641W
Fingertips	David Gallash	Louis saves the day for the school newspaper by learning to transcribe the braille report sent in by the editor.	OL24912477W
Louis Braille	Jayne Woodhouse	A simple biography of the man who invented a special system of raised dots on paper enabling blind people to read.	OL2657202W
Louis Braille	Jennifer Fisher Bryant,Jennifer Bryant	A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who originated the raised dot system of reading and writing used by the blind throughout the world.	OL2961417W
Louis Braille (Great Lives)	Stephen Keeler	The life of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who originated the raised dot system of reading and writing used throughout the world by the blind.	OL3949747W
A Murder Is Announced	Agatha Christie	The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Jane Marple, are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette which read: 'A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October …	OL471771W
A Caribbean Mystery	Agatha Christie	As Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine, she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever happened. Eventually, her intere…	OL472458W
Private and confidential	Marion Ripley	When Laura finds out that her new Australian pen pal, Malcolm, is blind, she learns to use a braille machine to write to him.	OL5954693W
Louis Braille	Madeline Donaldson,Susan Bivin Aller	Introduces the life of Louis Braille, who developed braille, an alphabet which allowed the blind to read.	OL6028730W
Never Love a Stranger	Harold Robbins	Harold Robbins' very first novel is also one of his most powerful. Never Love a Stranger tells the gritty and passionate tale of Francis "Frankie" Kane, from his meager beginnings as an orphan in…	OL8045876W
The Secret Code	Dana Meachen Rau	Oscar, who is blind, teaches Lucy how to read his Braille book.	OL8211418W
Out of Darkness	Kate Kiesler,Russell Freedman	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.	OL85965W
Sword and Scalpel	Frank G. Slaughter	*ABOUT AUTHOR: Frank Gill Slaughter , pen-name Frank G. Slaughter, pseudonym C.V. Terry, was an American novelist and physician whose books sold more than 60 million copies.* His novels drew on h…	OL99269W