High-schoolers will love the cultural diversity and realism of these fictional titles, and Braille readers will lose themselves in the historical intrigue.
Ruta Sepetys, 321 pages . Trapped by an evil dictatorship, will Cristian be forced to betray his family or will he risk everything he loves to resist? A powerful YA thriller, inspired by real events, from a Carnegie Medal-winn...
Item Number: 1486
$53.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)
by Thanhha Lai, 291 pages . This gorgeously written and deeply moving own voices novel is the young-adult debut from the award-winning author of Inside Out & Back Again. In the final days of the Vietnam War, Ha'ng takes her l...
Item Number: 6006
$48.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)
by Christopher Paul Curtis, 393 pages . Newbery Medal Winner. Eleven-year-old Elijah is the first child born into freedom in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves just over the border from Detroit. He's best known in his hometow...
Item Number: 5115
$65.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)
by Gary Paulsen, 61 pages . "To know things, for us to know things, is bad for them. We get to wanting and when we get to wanting it's bad for them. They thinks we want what they got ... That's why they don't want us reading." -...
Item Number: 5116
$9.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)
by Markus Zusak, 673 pages . "It's just a small story really, about, among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery ..." Set during World War...
Item Number: 5117
$112.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)
by Karen Cushman, 109 pages . In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a conten...
Item Number: 5118
$17.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)
by Richard Peck, 183 pages . Richard Peck is a master of stories about people in transition, but perhaps never before has he told a tale of such dramatic change as this one, set during the first year of the Civil War. The whole c...
Item Number: 5119
$30.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)
by Brian Burks, 109 pages . "In the 1880's, a band of Warm Springs Apache, led by Victorio, resisted the U.S. Army in an attempt to live on their own land, in their own way. One of the individuals of this group, whose life was r...
Item Number: 5120
$17.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)
by Brian Burks, 91 pages . Sixteen years old in 1886, Runs With Horses is a member of the last small band of Apaches continuing to resist the U.S. Army. His training for manhood as a Chiricahua Apache has been difficult but thr...
Item Number: 5121
$14.95 in Original Contracted Braille (Other Formats Available)
