Meanwhile, a rabid bear is beating down the barn door. As she notes, even eyesight wouldn't help her now. Natalie is forced to help give birth to a baby goat and must reach into the birth canal to save the baby. From boarding-school life where she and her roommate are attacked by drunks, to back at her family's farm where all goes wrong, readers follow her emotional and physical struggle. Natalie teaches the reader what it is like to become blind and educates us about terminology used by the blind. Hostile, angry, and uncooperative at first, she slowly begins to concentrate on learning Braille, using her cane, taking selfdefense classes, and making new friends. Part of going from denial to acceptance is attending a boarding school for the blind. Her vision has been diminishing from a congenital disease since she was eight, but now the prognosis is not if, but when. BLINDSIDED Priscilla Cummings Dutton Juvenile, 2010 240 pages SUMMARY: Natalie, 14, knows that her future is becoming dimmer as the loss of her eyesight is a nightmare she can't avoid.
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