num_pages: 144
description: Blinded after a terrible accident, Bess must learn to overcome her disability with the help of new friends and skills at the Perkins School for the Blind, in the wake of America's Great Depression.After Bess Brennan is blinded in a sledding accident, she must face a frightening, much-altered world. Confronted with a new set of obstacles, Bess manages to overcome her disability with the help of her new friends at the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts, where she also learns how to read braille. Her twin sister, Elin, assists her with recording daily events in her diary and contributes entries of her own. Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, Bess's story will inspire all readers to be strong in the face of hardship.
language: English
title: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Diary of Bess Brennan
titlecomplete: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Diary of Bess Brennan (Dear America)
genres: Middle Grade, Historical, Young Adult, Childrens, Disability, Diary, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Juvenile, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 2369
places: Watertown, Massachusetts, Massachusetts
series: Dear America
publisher: Scholastic Inc.