Magically transported to southwest China to find the final object needed to break the spell on the wizard Merlin's beloved penguin, Jack and Annie take a side trip to the world's largest giant panda reserve. Learn about giant pandas and other endangered species.
Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she was born and raised and the her posh high school in thesuburbs. The uneasy balance between them is shattered when Starr is the only witness to the fatal shooting of her unarmed best friend, Khalil, by a…
by Adler, David A., Fisher, Jeff
fromChildren's Braille book club
Discusses the life of the pilot who was the first woman to cross the Atlantic by herself in a plane.
Practical suggestions and stories about ways children can get along with all kinds of people, stay out of trouble, and resolve conflicts peacefully.
A young boy living in the Ozarks achieves his heart's desire when he becomes the owner of two redbone hounds and teaches them to be champion hunters.
Nancy helps find a missing will by using her good detective skills and tracking down every possible lead in the case.
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their fam…
The adventures of a curious little monkey who leaves his home in Africa, crosses the ocean in a ship, and comes to a zoo in a big city.
by Stier, Catherine, Avril, Lynne
fromChildren's Braille book club
Discusses the presidential election process.
by Stier, Catherine, Avril, Lynne
fromChildren's Braille book club
Discusses the presidential election process.
This book is an innovative and unique astronomy book. It is a combination of Braille and large-print captions that face 14 pages of Hubble Space Telescope photos with embossed shapes that represent various astronomical objects such as planets, stars and jets of gas streaming int…
Annotation
Annotation Touch the Universe is the most innovative and unique astronomy book ever published. It is a combination of Braille and large-print captions that face 14 pages of brilliant Hubble Space Telescope photos with embossed shapes that represent various astronomical objects s…
"A picture book biography about naturalist and artist Anna Comstock (1854-1930), who defied social conventions and pursued the study of science. She pioneered a movement to encourage schools to conduct science and nature classes for children outdoors, thereby increasing students…
In this innovative and important study, Heather Tilley examines the huge shifts that took place in the experience and conceptualisation of blindness during the nineteenth century, and demonstrates how new writing technologies for blind people had transformative effects on litera…
Heather Tilley examines the huge shifts that took place in the experience and conceptualisation of blindness during the nineteenth century.
This book examines the huge shifts that took place in the experience and conceptualisation of blindness during the nineteenth century, and demonstrates how new writing technologies for blind people had transformative effects on literary culture. Considering the ways in which vis…
