Miss Spitfire : reaching Helen Keller

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Label

Miss Spitfire : reaching Helen Keller

Title remainder

reaching Helen Keller

Statement of responsibility

Sarah Miller

Creator

• trueMiller, Sarah Elizabeth, 1979-

Subject

• trueAlabama
• Alabama -- History -- 1819-1950 -- Fiction
• Blind -- Fiction
• Deaf -- Fiction
• Historical fiction
• trueHistorical fiction
• Keller, Helen, 1880-1968 -- Fiction
• truePeople who are blind
• truePeople who are blind and deaf
• truePeople who are deaf
• People with disabilities -- Fiction
• truePersistence in women
• Sullivan, Annie, 1866-1936 -- Fiction
• trueTeacher-student relationships
• trueTeachers
• Teachers -- Fiction
• truePeople with disabilities

Genre

• Fiction
• Historical fiction

Language

eng

Summary

At age twenty-one, partially-blind, lonely but spirited Annie Sullivan travels from Massachusetts to Alabama to try and teach six-year-old Helen Keller, deaf and blind since age two, self-discipline and communication skills. Includes historical notes and timeline

Character

• trueAbility diverse

Award

• Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth, 2007
• YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, 2008

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• 010-012
• 890

Intended audience source

Lexile

LC call number

PZ7.M63443

LC item number

Mis 2007

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 5
• 9

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

pre adolescent