In this mix of serious topics and humour, Becky Bexley is in her second year of university, where she does voluntary work for a new blind student called Barbara who needs people to read her study material to her. They strike up a friendship, often have a laugh together, and Becky meets her brother and some of her disabled friends. They all tell her about their experiences of living with disabilities, a few of them amusing.
Becky and Barbara also make a new friend, with whom they discuss such topics as how eyewitness evidence can sometimes be unreliable without the eyewitnesses realising, and tricks lawyers can use to try to discredit witnesses in court.
Becky gets too argumentative one evening, stirring up a controversy that threatens to ruin Barbara's meet-up with old school friends. On the bright side, it's an opportunity for her to learn one or two worthwhile life lessons, although whether she does learn them is open to question.
This book, like the others in the Becky Bexley series, can be read as a standalone as well as a part of the series.
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Wydawnictwo: b.d
Data wydania: 2024-11-08
Kategoria: Dla młodzieży
Kategoria wiekowa: 15-18 lat
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Liczba stron: 334
Tytuł oryginału: Experiences With a Blind Student: Becky Volunteers to Help a Blind Student, and Learns a Lot as a Result
Język oryginału: Angielski
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Przeczytane:2025-02-09, Ocena: 5, Przeczytałam, YA 2025, 52 książki 2025, Insta challenge. Wyzwanie dla bookstagramerów 2025, Przeczytaj tyle, ile masz wzrostu – edycja 2025, Wyzwanie - wybrana przez siebie liczba książek w 2025 roku, 12 książek 2025, 26 książek 2025, 9/10, 2025, Mam, Recenzencka 2025, Książka 2025, LBT 2025,
" [...] A blind person often has to do things more slowly than someone who can see does to be safe. [...]"
I didn't know the previous parts of the series "Becky Bexley the Child Genius" by Diana Holbourn. Despite everything, I found myself very well in the fifth part entitled "Experiences with a Blind Student".
Here, I met, among others, two students Becky and Barbara. Barbara is blind. She has an older brother Tony, who is also blind. Thanks to them, I learned more about the lives of blind people. Now I know what they have to deal with every day. What they can't cope with. I know what irritates them. Some things shocked me a little. I didn't like one teacher who treated Barbara badly. People need to understand that blind people need more time, for example, to peel and cut a carrot, wash the dishes or make themselves a cup of tea.
"Experiences with a Blind Student" is a very valuable book that should be read by all thinking people inhabiting our planet. I hope that this book will make the world a more beautiful place for able-bodied and disabled people.
Becky is a second-year student who volunteered to help a blind student with her studies. That's how she met Barbara, her brother, and their friends. Thanks to their conversation, we delve into the world of the blind. Often, we don't have much in common with this topic. That's why I think it's worth reading this book. It's aimed more at young readers, but adults will find themselves in it just as well.
Diana Holbourn wrote it in such a good way that you won't want to put it down.
I'll happily reach for the earlier parts of this series and get to know Becky better.