num_pages: 240
description: In many ways Natalie OReilly is a typical fourteen-year-old girl. But a routine visit to the eye doctor produces devastating news: Natalie will lose her sight within a few short months.Suddenly her world is turned upside down. Natalie is sent to a school for the blind to learn skills such as Braille and how to use a cane. Outwardly she does as shes told; inwardly she hopes for a miracle that will free her from a dreaded life of blindness. But the miracle does not come and Natalie ultimately must confront every blind persons dilemma. Will she go home to live scared? Or will she embrace the skills she needs to make it in a world without sight?
language: English
title: Blindsided
publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers