345I: Boy Blinded By Firecracker (Solved!)

I am looking for a book that really meant a lot to my sister when she was a little girl (early 60s). She doesn’t remember the title but it is about a boy who is blinded by a firecracker and then gets a seeing eye dog. Does this ring any bells?

7 thoughts on “345I: Boy Blinded By Firecracker (Solved!)

  1. Susan

    Yes, that definitely sounds like Follow My Leader by James Garfield. It was a Scholastic book in the 1960s and was reprinted with a different cover in 1994.

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  2. SusannahJ

    I think I’m going to cry – my older brother had a copy of this book which had been passed down from our uncle’s youth. Just last week I was telling my 11YO stepson what I remembered of the plot (essentially the firecracker accident, blindness, and the dog).
    This has been one of my favorite websites & communities for years. Thank you. 🙂

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