Seeing Lessons: The Story of Abigail Carter and America's First School for Blind People

by Spring Hermann

In 1832, when Abigail Carter was only ten years old, two doctors from Boston invited her to be one of the first students in an experimental institution: a school for blind people. Abby and her younger... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805057064
• ISBN13: 9780805057065
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 163 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

An inspiring story of a girl overcoming her blindness.

Abigail Carter is only ten years old in 1832, and her sister, Sophia, is even younger. But the sisters, both blind since birth, are to be two of the first six students at America's first school for blind people. The city of Boston is strange and overwhelming to the two country girls who never left their small Massachusetts farm before, but they not only survive and overcome their homesickness, but triumph, learning to read and write and be independent. This was a truly inspiring story.