Who Was Louis Braille?
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Chapter Book · Ages 8–11 · 2014 · Est. 1 hour read

Who Was Louis Braille?

Written by Margaret Frith and Who HQ · Illustrated by Robert Squier

Part of the Who Was . . . ? series

A young boy becomes blind after an accident and goes on to invent a system of reading and writing for the blind

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112 pages· 7,316 words· Est. 1 hour read· 780L
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At fifteen, blind since four, Louis Braille invents a revolutionary reading system of raised dots, transforming the world for the sightless. How did this young genius change history forever?

From the publisher

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 hundred years later, no one has ever improved upon his simple, brilliant idea.

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Format
Paperback
Pages
112
Words
7,316
Reading age
8–11
Audience
Juvenile Reader
Lexile
780L
Themes & topics
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Book details

Reading levels
ATOS
5.3
F&P level
~S
AR points
1
AR interest level
MG
AR quiz
165688
Publication
Published
March 13, 2014
First published
January 1, 2014
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Edition
Language
English
Type
Chapter Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9780448479033
LCCN
2014934724

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