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Chapter Book · Ages 8–11 · 2014 · Est. 1 hour read
Who Was Louis Braille?
By Margaret Frith, Who HQ, Robert Squier (Illustrator)
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
4.2/5 Goodreads · 620 ratings
112 pages· 7,316 words· Est. 1 hour read
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Bookroo's summary
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.
At a glance
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 112
- Words
- 7,316
- Reading age
- 8–11
- Audience
- Juvenile Reader
- Lexile
- 780L
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The fine print
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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