While blindness is a topic not exactly overpopulated with treatments at the moment, readers looking for a more solid exploration can turn to Sally Alexander's autobiographical works such as On My Own (BCCB 5/97). Worse still, the plot heaps on melodrama after melodrama, including a criminal attack on Natalie and her roommate, her roommate's subsequent death, and Natalie and a friend's fending off of a bear attack on Natalie's family farm. While there's some candid exploration of the dilemmas and details of low-vision life, there's little delving beyond surface psychology or standard cultural assumptions characters, including Natalie, are largely ciphers. As the plot overview suggests, this is, despite its contemporary setting and details, an old-fashioned style of disability drama. OTHER BOOKS YOU MAY ENJOY Al Capone DoesMyShirts GenniferCholdenko Blindsided Priscilla Cummings Buddy M. At first, Natalie is determined to stay an outsider, defining herself as normal in contrast to the other students, but gradually she begins to accept her new schoolmates, her new identity, and the possibilities still open to her as long as she's willing to embrace them. In many ways, Natalie OaReilly is a typical fourteenyear- old girl.

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