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Who Was Helen Keller? by Gare Thompson

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linds_eb's review against another edition

informative fast-paced

3.5

Bought this book for my classroom and wanted to read it before adding it to my shelf. Overall it is very educational and has some great facts that I didn’t necessarily know. My students are very fascinated with Helen Keller so I’m wondering how many of them will pick this up and actually give it a read.

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4.0

Wow

This woman did a lot of amazing things. A lot of good for the world. Her teacher never have up on her and gets a ton of credit for her success

dkragick's review against another edition

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4.0

Reading through a batch of these. Concise books for middle schoolers.

adamren's review against another edition

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4.0

Sad yet inspirational. She contracted a high fever (from meningitis?) just after she could walk and speak and nearly died but was left blind and deaf. Later a teacher, Anne/Annie Sullivan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Sullivan) came from South Boston's Perkins Institute for the Deaf to teach Helen in Alabama at age 7. [Now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perkins_School_for_the_Blind]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller

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Fascinating life. Probably the most inspirational story there is.

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colinandersbrodd's review against another edition

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5.0

A biography of Helen Keller from the "Who Was . . .?" series. I had read my little kids and excerpt of a memoir by Helen Keller, and even though my wife had taught them about her before, they claimed they remembered nothing about her, so I read them this short, kid-friendly biography.