The Seeing Summer
by Jeannette Eyerly
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After her initial shock, Carey adjusts to having a blind playmate and takes it upon herself to locate her friend when she is kidnapped.Tags
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I read this way back in elementary school, and I forgot many parts of it, but I do remember enjoying this book. The main character befriends a blind girl, and she has to learn how to interact with the blind girl. She makes mistakes because she has never been with a blind person before, and has to learn that blind people do have certain disadvantages, but they're not completely weak and helpless, as she learns when she tries to help Jenny only to be rebuffed a couple of times because Jenny is fiercely independent despite her disability. And then Jenny gets kidnapped, oh my! Overall this is a pretty good book, and since it's for kids, it gives kids who read this some understanding (and clearing up some misconceptions) about blind people.
When a new girl, Jenny moves in next door, Carey is worried she won't be able to do anything because she is blind. She soon finds out differently. Jenny is very capable. I thought this was a very true to life story.
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Author Jeannette Eyerly wrote 18 young adult novels and two books of poetry during her lifetime. She won the Christopher Medal for Escape from Nowhere, about a girl's struggle with drugs. Her book, He's My Baby Now, about an unmarried father seeking to keep his child was adapted into an after school special entitled Schoolboy Father. Her books show more primarily dealt with serious topics as drug abuse, suicide, teen pregnancy, abortion and divorce. She was inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame in 2006. She died on August 18, 2008 at the age of 100. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Seeing Summer
- Original publication date
- 1981
- People/Characters
- Carey Cramer; Aunt Edna Richard; Pansy Prugh; Thoams Cramer; Jenny Lee
- Important places
- Iowa, USA
- Epigraph
- The author is grateful to Dr. Wallace and Mrs. Ruth Schroeder, Shirley Lansing and Doris M. Willoughby for their wise counsel and careful reading of the manuscript. A great deal is owed to the scores of blind persons young a... (show all)nd old, who became friends during her service with the Iowa Commission for the Blind.
- Dedication
- For Kenneth Jernigan with admiration and affection
- First words
- Hopping on one foot, Carey glared at the chunk of cement that had worked its way up from the crack in the sidewalk.
- Quotations
- The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight. the real problem is in the misunderstanding and lack of information which exist. If a blind person has proper training and if he has opportunity, blindness is only a ... (show all)physical nuisance. ~Kenneth Jernigan
The author is grateful to Dr. Wallace and Mrs. Ruth Schroeder, Shirley Lansing, and Doris M. Willoughby for their wise counsel and careful reading of the manuscript. A great deal is owed to the scores of blind persons, young and old, who became her friends during her service with the Iowa Commission for the Blind.
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