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Helen Keller: Historical Fiction

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Fiction & Drama

The Silent Storm

From Goodreads: "A story of Annie Sullivan, the woman who able to break through the wall of blindness, muteness, and deafness which imprisoned a seven year old girl named Helen Keller". It's reading level is very easy and I love that it tells more of a story about Annie Sullivan and her childhood along with going in more depth of her struggles with helping Helen Keller through out her life. This book traces Annie's work and companionship with Helen through college and culminates with Annie's engagement to John Macy. A very good read."

Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller

From Goodreads: "Annie Sullivan was little more than a half-blind orphan with a fiery tongue when she arrived at Ivy Green in 1887. Desperate for work, she'd taken on a seemingly impossible job -- teaching a child who was deaf, blind, and as ferocious as any wild animal. But Helen Keller needed more than a teacher. She needed someone daring enough to work a miracle. And if anyone was a match for Helen, it was the girl they used to call Miss Spitfire." 

The Miracle Worker

Probably the most famous work about Helen Keller, and a major contributor to her continuing presence in American culture.

From Goodreads: "Twelve-year-old Helen Keller lived in a prison of silence and darkness....Then Annie Sullivan came. Half-blind herself, but possessing an almost fanatical determination, she would begin a frightening and incredibly moving struggle to tame the wild girl no one could reach, and bring Helen into the world at last.."

Monday After the Miracle

By the same author as The Miracle Worker.
From Goodreads: "The action of the play takes place in Boston, seventeen years after the events of . Helen is now an honor student at Radcliffe, and she and Annie have undertaken to write a book about their remarkable experiences. A young instructor of English from Harvard, John Macy, is engaged to help them, and Annie, yielding to an overpowering need to pursue a life of her own, soon falls in love with him. Their marriage, and the disruptive domestic triangle that results, leads to the compelling crisis of the play." from Goodreads