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Middle-School Bestsellers

Here is a list of our most popular Braille books for blind middle-schoolers, in order of popularity. These titles are for students in grades 6 through 8.

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by Pseudonymous Bosch, 333 pages . A magical new series from Pseudonymous Bosch, the bestselling author of the Secret Series. Magic is BAD. As in fake. Cheesy. Unreal. At least, that's what Clay, who has seen one magic show too many...

Item Number: 4486

$55.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

by James Riley, 373 pages . A hilarious, action-packed series launches with a story-within-a-story, from the bestselling author of the Half Upon a Time trilogy. Life is boring when you live in the real world, instead of starr...

Item Number: 4510

$62.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

Mark of the Thief

by Jennifer A. Nielsen, 401 pages . Jennifer A. Nielsen, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Ascendance Trilogy, has woven an electrifying tale of greed and power, magic and destiny, and one boy's courage at the heart...

Item Number: 4731

$66.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

The War that Saved My Life

by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, 325 pages . (A Newbery Honor Book) An exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds set during World War II, from the acclaimed author of Jefferson's Sons - and for fans of Number the Stars. Nine-y...

Item Number: 4519

$54.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

by Sara Pennypacker, 253 pages . From bestselling and award-winning author Sara Pennypacker comes a beautifully wrought, utterly compelling novel about the powerful relationship between a boy and his fox. Pax is destined to become a ...

Item Number: 4547

$42.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

The Dragonet Prophecy

Series: Wings of Fire, Book One

by Tui T. Sutherland, 377 pages . A thrilling new series soars above the competition and redefines middle-grade fantasy fiction for a new generation! The seven dragon tribes have been at war for generations, locked in an endless ba...

Item Number: 4808

$62.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

by Brandon Mull, 561 pages . Adventure awaits in the Five Kingdoms - come and claim it in this start to a new series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Fablehaven and Beyonders series. All Cole Randolph wants...

Item Number: 4836

$93.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

The Wishing Spell

Series: The Land of Stories #1

by Chris Colfer, 525 pages . Alex and Conner Bailey's world is about to change, in this fast-paced adventure that uniquely combines our modern-day world with the enchanting realm of classic fairy-tales. The Land of Stories tel...

Item Number: 4736

$87.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

by Spencer Quinn, 327 pages . There is trouble brewing in the Louisiana swamp - Bowser can smell it. Bowser is a very handsome and only slightly slobbery dog, and he can smell lots of things. Like bacon. And rawhide chews! And the...

Item Number: 4562

$54.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

Circus Mirandus

by Cassie Beasley, 309 pages . Fans of Big Fish, Peter Pan, and Roald Dahl will fall in love with Circus Mirandus, which celebrates the power of seeing magic in the world. Do you believe in magic? Micah Tuttle does. Even though ...

Item Number: 4489

$51.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life

Series: Dork Diaries #1

by Rachel Renee Russell, 171 pages . Meet Nikki Maxwell! She's starting eighth grade at a new school - and her very first diary packed with hilarious stories in Book One of the #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series! Nikki ...

Item Number: 4585

$28.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims

Series: Rush Revere #1

by Rush Limbaugh, 231 pages . Nationally syndicated radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh has long wanted to make American history come to life for the children of his listeners. So he created the character of a fearless middle-schoo...

Item Number: 4507

$38.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

The Thing About Jellyfish

by Ali Benjamin, 255 pages . After her best friend dies in a drowning accident, Suzy is convinced that the true cause of the tragedy was a rare jellyfish sting. Retreating into a silent world of imagination, she crafts a plan to ...

Item Number: 4671

$42.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

It's Your World

by Chelsea Clinton, 503 pages . Get informed! Get inspired! Get going! In a book that tackles the biggest challenges facing us today, the former first daughter combines background, facts and stories to give readers a deep underst...

Item Number: 4401

$84.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

The Goosebumps Movie

by R. L. Stine, 149 pages . Goosebumps: The Movie Novel. Zach, 16, has just moved from New York City to a creepy small town. He soon realizes his new neighbor, Hannah (also 16), is in danger. When he tries to rescue her, he acci...

Item Number: 4905

$24.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

by Malala Yousafzai with Patricia McCormick, 233 pages . Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said women weren't allowed to go to the market. They said girls couldn't even go ...

Item Number: 4500

$38.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

Inside Out and Back Again

by Thanhha Lai, 145 pages . (A Newbery Honor Book) "No one would believe me, but at times I would choose wartime in Saigon over peacetime in Alabama ..." For all the ten years of her life, Ha has only known Saigon: the thr...

Item Number: 4618

$23.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

by Chris Grabenstein, 317 pages . Kyle Keeley is the class clown, popular with most kids, (if not the teachers), and an ardent fan of all games: board games, word games, and particularly video games. His hero, Luigi Lemoncello, the...

Item Number: 4492

$52.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

Max (Best Friend. Hero. Marine.)

by Boaz Yakin and Sheldon Lettich, 245 pages . Now a major motion picture, this movie novelization tells the story of a canine hero. When Justin's older brother, Kyle, is killed in Afghanistan, Justin can't believe that his brother is really go...

Item Number: 4542

$40.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

by Kwame Alexander, 175 pages . (2015 Newberry Award Winner) "With a bolt of lightning on my kicks ... The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I'm delivering," announc...

Item Number: 4657

$28.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

The One and Only Ivan

by Katherine Applegate, 175 pages . (Newbery Medal Winner.) Ivan is an easy-going gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He r...

Item Number: 4559

$28.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

by R. J. Palacio, 399 pages . "I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse." August Pullman was born with a facial deformity that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream ...

Item Number: 4681

$66.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

by Sharon M. Draper, 309 pages . Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. Always. And there's no DELETE button. She's the smartest kid in her whole school - but no...

Item Number: 4634

$51.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

by Kathryn Erskine, 213 pages . In Caitlin's world, everything is black or white. Things are good or bad. Anything in between is confusing. That's the stuff Caitlin's older brother, Devon, has always explained. But now Devon's dead ...

Item Number: 4623

$35.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

by Holly Goldberg Sloan, 387 pages . In the tradition of Out of My Mind, Wonder, and Mockingbird, this is an intensely moving middle-grade novel about being an outsider, coping with loss, and discovering the true meaning of family. Wi...

Item Number: 4598

$64.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

Turtle in Paradise

by Jennifer L. Holm, 183 pages . In Jennifer L. Holm's New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor winning middle-grade historical fiction novel, life isn't like the movies. But then again, eleven-year-old Turtle is no Shirley Temple! ...

Item Number: 4522

$30.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

Greg Heffley's Journal

Series: Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1

Written by Jeff Kinneyn, 111 pages . In this first volume of three, this serial records a middle-school everykid's triumphs and (more often) tribulations through the course of a school year. Largely through his own fault, mishaps seem to...

Item Number: 4582

$18.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

Charlotte's Web

by E. B. White, 171 pages . Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he's destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner. That's when his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him. "Some pig!" These words that Charl...

Item Number: 4535

$28.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

Series: or There and Back Again

by J. R. R. Tolkien, 435 pages . Bilbo Baggins, the hobbit, is in a peaceful sort of cozy hole in the Shire, a place where adventures are uncommon and rather unwanted. So when the wizard Gandalf whisks him away on a treasure hunting ...

Item Number: 4999

$72.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

The Bad Beginning (Book the First)

Series: A Series of Unfortunate Events

by Lemony Snicket, 121 pages . "The Bad Beginning is actually a great beginning. It's the first book in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, a wonderfully different and disastrous children's story starring...

Item Number: 4864

$19.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

The Little Prince

by Antoine de Saint Exupery, 89 pages . An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince from a small planet who relates his adventures in seeking the secret of what is important in life. "This new tr...

Item Number: 4844

$14.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway, 115 pages . The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme o...

Item Number: 5424

$18.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

Series: Chronicles of Narnia #2

by C. S. Lewis, 175 pages . The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe introduced readers to the wonders and enchantment of Narnia when it was first published over fifty years ago. Since then the hearts and imaginations of mill...

Item Number: 4993

$28.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll, 133 pages . By falling down a rabbit hole, Alice experiences unusual adventures with a variety of nonsensical characters. In Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, a very real little girl named Alice foll...

Item Number: 5498

$21.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

The Secret of the Old Clock

Series: Nancy Drew Mystery Stories Series #1

by Carolyn Keene, 193 pages . Nancy Drew's keen mind is tested when she searches for a missing will. For ages 8 to 12....

Item Number: 4943

$31.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

by George Orwell, 137 pages . Animal Farm was George Orwell's satirical shot at the then-new totalitarianism of the left. It is so accurate that no one has been able to do it better or more effectively, or even come close. ...

Item Number: 5497

$22.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

by William Shakespeare, 125 pages . The powerful tragedy of the Scottish thane who becomes obsessed with the desire for power. Spurred on by his wife, Lady Macbeth, he murders Duncan, his king, in order to become king himself....

Item Number: 5482

$20.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

Little House in the Big Woods

Series: Little House on the Prairie Series #1

by Laura Ingalls Wilder, 161 pages . Laura Ingalls' story begins in 1871 in a little log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Four-year-old Laura lives in the little house with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and...

Item Number: 4983

$26.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

Bridge to Terabithia

by Katherine Paterson, 169 pages . A Newbery Medal BookAll summer, Jess pushed himself to be the fastest boy in the fifth grade, and when the year's first school-yard race was run, he was going to win. But his victory was stolen by...

Item Number: 4592

$27.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

Selected by Danny Faris, 103 pages . Do you enjoy watching those popular TV game-shows where the players try to answer question after question correctly? Well, how would you like to play your very own game of trivia with friends or famil...

Item Number: 5337

$16.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

by Judy Blume, 127 pages . Living with his little brother, Fudge, makes Peter Hatcher feel like a fourth grade nothing. Whether Fudge is throwing a temper tantrum in a shoe store, smearing smashed potatoes on walls at Hamburger...

Item Number: 4852

$20.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

by John Steinbeck, 113 pages . When the news of Kino's great find - the "pearl of the world" - spreads through the small town, no one suspects its power to deceive, to corrupt, to destroy ... Like his father and grandfather befo...

Item Number: 5427

$18.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

by S. E. Hinton, 239 pages . Ponyboy is fourteen, tough and confused, yet sensitive behind his bold front. Since his parents' death, his loyalties have been to his brothers and his gang, the rough, swinging, long-haired boys from...

Item Number: 5171

$39.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

The Boxcar Children

Series: The Boxcar Children Series #1

by Gertrude Chandler Warner, 93 pages . Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny are orphans. Determined to make it on their own, they set out to find a safe place to live. They discover an old, red boxcar that provides shelter from a storm. Against...

Item Number: 4341

$15.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

Keep 'Em Laughing (Jokes to Amuse and Annoy Your Friends)

by Louis Phillips, 53 pages . Why did the bubble gum cross the road? What's purple, and dangerous, and goes up and down? And what is the waiter going to do about that fly? Check out Keep 'Em Laughing for the answers - but o...

Item Number: 5339

$8.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

Series: Science in Action series

by Frank Dalton, 63 pages . The weather is something we take for granted. We wake up to different weather every day - sunshine, rain, snow, hail, fog, mist, clear skies, cloudy skies, strong winds, light breezes. What is it that...

Item Number: 4438

$10.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

The Call of the Wild

by Jack London, 145 pages . Published in 1903, and widely regarded as Jack London's masterpiece, this is a classic tale of survival in the Alaskan wilderness. The Call of the Wild is the story of a courageous dog, Buck, t...

Item Number: 5500

$23.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare, 169 pages . "The permanent popularity, now of mythic intensity, of Romeo and Juliet is more than justified," writes eminent scholar Harold Bloom, "since the play is the largest and most persuasive celebrat...

Item Number: 5481

$27.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

Strange Stuff (True Stories of Odd Places and Things)

by Janet Nuzum Myers, 113 pages . Kids love to contemplate strange stuff. Quicksand is right up there with Bigfoot, the Bermuda Triangle, meat-eating plants, the lost continent of Atlantis, wolf children, voodoo and zombies, scorpions...

Item Number: 4402

$18.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

by Fred Gipson, 165 pages . 1957 Newbery Honor BookA wily stray, Old Yeller helps Travis and his family stay safe from the many dangers of the wild Texas frontier in this heartwarming tale of the Old West. For ages 10 to ...

Item Number: 4772

$27.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

Nasty, Stinky Sneakers

by Eve Bunting, 71 pages . Colin has spent weeks perfecting his sneaker odor for The Stinkiest Sneakers in the World contest. If he wins, he'll get three brand-new pairs of Slam Dunkers sneakers: one for himself, one for his li...

Item Number: 4626

$11.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

Dawn on the Coast

Series: The Baby-Sitters Club Series #23

by Ann M. Martin, 139 pages . Dawn can't wait for her trip to California. Besides all the sun and fun, it's her first visit since her brother, Jeff, moved back to live with their dad. California is better than Dawn ever remembe...

Item Number: 4878

$22.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

by Anna Sewell, 265 pages . Set in nineteenth-century England, here is the moving story of a beautiful black horse, from birth to old age. Because of ill fortune, Black Beauty is passed from one cruel owner to another, until, at...

Item Number: 5515

$44.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee, 527 pages . Lawyer Atticus Finch defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white woman. Through the eyes of Atticus' children, Sco...

Item Number: 5532

$88.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)

The Tower Treasure

Series: Hardy Boys Mystery Stories Series #1

by Franklin W. Dixon, 215 pages . Frank and Joe Hardy are sons of an internationally-famous detective, named Fenton Hardy. Naturally, their goal is to follow in the footsteps of their brilliant father, but never has a case so baffling...

Item Number: 4963

$35.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)