Miss Spitfire : reaching Helen Keller
/ Sarah Miller
- 1st ed
- New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers , c2007.
- 208 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
9781416925422
2006014738
Sullivan, Annie, 1866-1936----Juvenile literature Keller, Helen (, 1880-1968) ----Juvenile literature
Blind----Juvenile fiction Deaf----Juvenile ficiton People with disabilities----Fiction Teachers----Fiction