Seeing Lessons: The Story of Abigail Carter and America's First School for Blind People

Abigail Carter is only ten years old in 1832, and her sister, Sophia, is even younger. But the sisters, both blind since birth, are to be two of the first six students at America's first school for blind people. The city of Boston is strange and overwhelming to the two country girls who never left their small Massachusetts farm before, but they not only survive and overcome their homesickness, but triumph, learning to read and write and be independent. This was a truly inspiring story.