Schools Books

I first read this in third grade. And re-read it at least a dozen times. I was enthralled by how the dog was trained, how the kid learned to read braille... I even checked out books on braille and tried to make my own using a pin to bump up paper. I'm now in my mid30s and still have vivid memories of this book. Along with "From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler," it's in my Top 10 of Childhood. Buy it, read it, love it.

My 3rd grade teacher read this to our class and I remember it to this day, and I'm now 53!! Recommended it to my youngest son to read in 4/5th grade and he loved it. This book should be on a required/recommended booklist for everyone in elementary school.

This was the very first book I actually read all the way through with out zoning out when I was a kid. It held my attention and captured my heart in its true way of expressing a new way one has to live in a moment of tragedy. I was 13 at the time.

I was the kid that always fell asleep in class because absolutely nothing interested me. But this book changed all that...

This book was my favorite book in 3rd and 4th grade. My best friend and I took turns checking it out from the school library, and often explored the concept of "disability" by taking turns pretending to be blind. This story is a classic story of overcoming adversity - it probably would made an excellent tv movie as well. It also is an excellent book for teaching kids about disability awarness, and that kids with disabilities can do lots of important things (like the challenge the main character overcomes in the story). My 9 year old daughter recently read it, and loved it too. She brought it to her 3rd grade class, and the class took turns reading it during free time. So, I think it is timeless!

Follow My Leader is a book written by James B. Garfield. There are different settings in which the story takes place such as a baseball field. The main character in the story is a boy named Jimmy.

Jimmy becomes blind due to a fire cracker. A kid had lit up a firecracker and when he realized that he was in trouble he threw it, but it exploded in Jimmy's face. The kid who threw the fireworks is named Mike Adams.

Ever since the accident Mike became meaner and all of Jimmy's friends stopped hanging around Mike. Jimmy started learning about things that blind people had to do such as learning Braille, how blind people walk in doors, and how to walk with a white cane. But, when Jimmy got a guide-dog he didn't need the cane anymore. Jimmy went to the guide-dog school and after enough training Jimmy got a guide-dog that he named Leader.

At the school, Jimmy's roommate was Mack. Mack had told him to forgive Mike. Mack was a blind man and before he was also mad at the person who made him blind. Then he had learned about how sad the person who made him blind felt so he forgave him he told Jimmy about all of this but, Jimmy didn't, know what to do. What will happen, will Jimmy forgive Mike or will Mike have a guilty conscience forever?