Full Summary:
Braya Robertson hasn't always been blind. She was born a seeing person. When she was ten, she was hit in the head by a horse hoof and from thenceforth she has been blind. She married her seeing husband when she was eighteen and has three children by him. Moving from Michigan to Colorado Springs because the townspeople burned their school, Braya and her family hope to open a blind school in the community. What will happen when the rest of the town find out that not only will blind white children be accepted at the school, but also blind Indian and black children as well? Will they do the same thing their old town did and send them packing? Or will Braya and the kids finally stand the ground that was meant for them to stand?
Braya & The Children:
Mrs. Braya Robertson: Blinded at the age of ten, Braya has become a light of hope to many blind and orphaned children over the years, married to Blaine Robertson, she has birthed two sighted children and one blind child. She also loves to sing and has passed the gift to the children she cares for. She became a teacher when she was sixteen.
Mr. Blaine Robertson: Never been blind in his life, he was attracted to Braya for her belief that all children, whether blind or not, white or not, should all be treated the same way and get the same education. He has a knack for carving elegant sculptures and selling them at a reasonable price.
Ms. Erran Johnson: Mother to Braya, she moved in with Braya and her husband to help with the raising of her grandchildren. She also is a teacher and helped Braya get her teaching degree. She teaches the blind and seeing with the same patience that she taught Braya with.
McKenzie Robertson: The ten-year-old daughter of Braya and Blaine; wants to become a teacher like her mother and grandmother.
Anishi Robertson: The six-year-old daughter of Braya and Blaine; likes to sing like her mother; wants to become a wood carver like her father.
Kerry Robertson: The three-year-old blind daughter of Braya and Blaine.
Corrine Atkinson: A sixteen-year-old black orphan, sister of Anika and wants to become a teacher; the oldest girl at the Blind School.
Anika Atkinson: A ten-year-old black blind orphan, sister of Corrine and loves to play the fiddle.
Mylene Robic: A fourteen-year-old blind girl whose parents abandoned her; wants to become a teacher.
Adachi Black Sun: A fourteen-year-old Cherokee boy orphaned after the massacre of his village; thankful to the Robertson's for taking him in.
Rainbow Feather: A twelve-year-old Lakota Sioux boy who was blinded by a gunshot to the head; thankful to the Robertson's for taking him in.
Little Eagle: A ten-year-old Lenape boy who was born blind and taken in by the Robertson's after the massacre of his village; thinks of Mrs. Braya as his mother.
Snow Bird: A ten-year-old Pawnee girl who was born blind and taken in by the Robertson's; loves to sing.
Mikita Millington: A ten-year-old girl who was orphaned and blinded by the fire that burned the first Blind School.
Leilani Riggins: An eight-year-old black girl who was orphaned when she was a baby and taken in by the Robertson's when she was six; loves to sing and dance.
Nyree Makemba: An eight-year-old black girl who was born blind and abandoned when her parents couldn't afford to take care of her; twin sister of Zola.
Zola Makemba: An eight-year-old black girl abandoned by her parents; twin sister of Nyree.
Seymour Jackson: An eight-year-old boy who was blinded by his father after he threw boiling water into his face.
Max Cybulski: A seven-year-old boy blinded after hitting his head when he was three on a rock.
Durand Waldeck: A seven-year-old boy abandoned by his parents when he was only three-years-old.
Rylan Staite: A seven-year-old black boy born blind and nearly killed in the fire that burned the first Blind School.
Jasika McKidd: A six-year-old black girl born blind and left on the steps of the orphanage in her home town, then taken in by the Robertson's when she was two.
Alisha Carter: A six-year-old orphan girl born blind and nearly killed in the fire that burned the first Blind School; twin sister of Ashby.
Ashby Carter: A six-year-old orphan girl who lives with her sister at the Blind School; twin sister of Alisha.
Naoko Clairmont: A five-year-old black boy blinded by his father who shot him in a drunken rage when he was only two.
Feyzah Lo-Chiang: A five-year-old Chinese orphan girl who lives with her sister at the Blind school; sister of Zia.
Sullivan Nickolas: A five-year-old black boy orphaned by his parents after they learned he had epilepsy.
Malika Rainbow Feather: A four-year-old Comanche girl orphaned after the massacre of her village.
Zia Lo-Chiang: A four-year-old Chinese orphan girl blinded after a tornado destroyed her parents home; sister of Feyzah.
Sayda Xiang: A four-year-old Chinese orphan girl blinded during a cave-in which killed her mother and father.
Amishka McLaury: A four-year-old orphan who was blinded during the fire of the first Blind School.
