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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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. Even at the school for the blind in Paris, there were no books for him. And so he invented his own alphabet--a whole new system for writing that he could read by touch. A system so ingenious that it is till used by the blind community today."
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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 certainly wasn't your average teenager. Blind from the age of four, he was only fifteen when in 1824 he invented a reading system that converted printed words into columns of raised dots. Through touch, Braille opened the world of books to the sightless, and almost two...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Get to know the life and legacy of Louis Braille. Vivid photographs and easy-to-read text give early readers an engaging and age-appropriate look at his invention of braille and how it changed the blind community forever.
10) Louis Braille
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Interactive Library
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A simple biography of the man who invented a special system of raised dots on paper enabling blind people to read.
12) Louis Braille
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
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.
13) Louis Braille
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who created the dot system of reading and writing that is now used by the blind throughout the world.
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out about important issues. Let their incredible stories inspire...