Who Was Helen Keller?

Author: Gare Thompson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101640006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113

Book Description
At age two, Helen Keller became deaf and blind. She lived in a world of silence and darkness and she spent the rest of her life struggling to break through it. But with the help of teacher Annie Sullivan, Helen learned to read, write, and do many amazing things. This inspiring illustrated biography is perfect for young middle-grade readers. Black-and-white line drawings throughout, sidebars on related topics such as Louis Braille, a timeline, and a bibliography enhance readers' understanding of the subject.

Helen Keller

Author: Elizabeth MacLeod
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1554530008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description
A brief biography highlights some of the struggles and accomplishments in the life of Helen Keller.

Helen Keller and the Big Storm

Author: Patricia Lakin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689841043
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
A true incident in the life of young Helen Keller in which she gets stuck in a storm and her teacher, Annie Sullivan, rescues her.

My Name Is Helen Keller

Author: Myron Uhlberg
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807553158
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35

Book Description
The inspiring story of a girl whose world never stopped growing. As a baby, Helen Keller lost her hearing and sight to a rare illness. For five years, the world around her was a mystery. Then one day, her teacher taught Helen a single name, and her world started to grow. She went on to graduate from college, write books, and travel the country, speaking out for people with disabilities. Helen Keller's world never stopped growing. And her story is a reminder that behind every name is something precious, waiting to be discovered.

Helen Keller

Author: Margaret Davidson
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780808551416
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A biography stressing the childhood of the woman who overcame the handicaps of being blind and deaf

Helen Keller

Author: Dorothy Herrmann
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226327631
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 422

Book Description
Draws on the archives of Helen Keller's estate and the unpublished memoirs of Keller's teacher, Annie Sullivan, to trace Keller's transformation from a furious girl to a world-renowned figure.

Helen Keller

Author: Meredith Eliassen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1440874646
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
This book provides new and exciting interpretations of Helen Keller's unparalleled life as "the most famous American woman in the world" during her time, celebrating the 141st anniversary of her birth. Helen Keller: A Life in American History explores Keller's life, career as a lobbyist, and experiences as a deaf-blind woman within the context of her relationship with teacher-guardian-promoter Anne Sullivan Macy and overarching social history. The book tells the dual story of a pair struggling with respective disabilities and financial hardship and the oppressive societal expectations set for women during Keller's lifetime. This narrative is perhaps the most comprehensive study of Helen Keller's role in the development of support services specifically related to the deaf-blind, as delineated as different from the blind. Readers will learn about Keller's challenges and choices as well as how her public image often eclipsed her personal desires to live independently. Keller's deaf-blindness and hard-earned but limited speech did not define her as a human being as she explored the world of ideas and wove those ideas into her writing, lobbying for funds for the American Federation for the Blind and working with disabled activists and supporters to bring about practical help during times of tremendous societal change.

Optimism

Author: Helen Keller
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775562271
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 33

Book Description
Stuck in a rut? Need an attitude adjustment? This inspirational classic from American author Helen Keller is bound to fit the bill. Rendered deaf and blind by scarlet fever in her infancy in a time when the disabled were often shunned and ignored, Keller managed to learn to read, write, and speak, not in only in her native English, but in several other languages, as well. Keller regards optimism as "the faith that leads to achievement," and this treatise lays out her views on making the best of even the direst of circumstances.

A Girl Named Helen

Author: Bonnie Bader
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781536448276
Category : Deafblind women
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
Introduces the life and accomplishments of Helen Keller, including her activism for people with disabilities.

Helen's Big World

Author: Doreen Rappaport
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781536409895
Category : Deafblind people
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
An introduction to the life and legacy of Helen Keller and her teacher Annie Sullivan.