Newly Transcribed Books for September 2008
Once again, Wisconsin Braille, Inc. is pleased to offer a selection of braille books for your school library because of grant money awarded us. As in the past, the committee has chosen books that are not already brailled. We searched the on-line catalog in our local library, as well as other sources, to locate recognized books of excellence. The committee hopes that the selection meets your readers’ needs and welcomes your suggestions of titles not already brailled for next year’s selection.
You may continue to order early readers in either contracted or uncontracted braille.
Indicate your preference on the order form.
Our current selection is:
The Big, Big Wall, by Reginald Howard
Humpty Dumpty doesn’t want to have a big fall. See how his friends come to his assistance in order to help him down. Print/Braille copy available. Grades K – 2.
Bindi Babes, by Narinder Dhami
Amber, Jazz and Geena Dhillon are three fabulous sisters with a reputation for being the coolest, best-dressed girls at their school. But their classmates don’t know that they work extra hard to look perfect and together to all of their friends…while privately trying not to think about how much they miss their mother, who died a year ago. Find out what happens when an interfering auntie from India comes to live with them.
Grades 4-6.
The Case of the Desperate Duck, by Cynthia Rylant
Mabel’s Tea Room is missing a box of fancy sugar cubes! But who would steal sugar? And why? Thank goodness the High-Rise Private Eyes, Jack Jones and Bunny Brown are on the case! Beginning Readers.
Celeste’s Harlem Renaissance, by Eleanora E. Tate
When Celeste Massey is forced to live with her actress aunt, she is not thrilled to trade her friends and surroundings for a scary big-city life. Things are not all what they seem. She must eventually face a choice between ambition and loyalty, roots and new horizons. The decision will change her forever. Grades 5-9 and up.
Finding Nemo: Just Keep Swimming, by Melissa Lagonegro
Nemo has a dream. He wants to join the school swim team. He’s worried that he will never win but learns to accept the help and advice of his friends. Print/Braille copy available. Grades K – 2.
Here’s a Little Poem, A Very First Book of Poetry, collected by Jane Yolen and Andrew Peters
This superb selection contains more than sixty poems by a wide range of talented writers from Margaret Wise Brown to Langston Hughes to Hilaire Belloc. Grade 2 and up.
Missy Violet & Me, by Barbara Hathaway
The summer that Viney is eleven puts her under the wing of Missy Violet, a well-loved midwife who teaches Viney about the business of catchin’ babies. Viney learns about roots and herbs and their medicinal purposes, and the contents of Missy Violet’s “birthin’ bag.” Scary, funny, and exhilarating, the rhythm of Viney’s life in the South quickens as she embraces her apprenticeship and finds her own special place as Missy Violet’s “best helper girl.” Grades 4–8.
Moon Runner, by Carolyn Marsden
When Mina, a self-professed “girlie-girl” and non-athlete, turns out to excel in track, her friends are as surprised as she is, especially the competitive Ruth. When Coach chooses her to run against Ruth, Mina faces an unhappy predicament. Should she hold back on purpose and let Ruth win? Or let herself soar? Grades 3-5.
One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II, by Lita Judge
When Lita Judge discovered tracings of feet in her grandparents’ attic, she was intrigued. This is the story behind those tracings, the story of one American family’s triumphant effort to relieve the suffering of Europeans in the aftermath of World War II. Grades 4-8.
Rex Zero and the End of the World, Tim Wynne-Jones
In the summer of 1962 with everyone nervous about a possible nuclear war, ten-nearly-eleven-year-old Rex, having just moved to Ottawa from Vancouver with his parents and five siblings, faces his own personal challenges as he discovers new friends and a new understanding of the world around him. Grades 7-12.
Snowed in with Grandmother Silk, by Carol Fenner
Ruddy’s grandmother isn’t much fun. During a long stay with her, a snowstorm comes howling through and they are left without light, heat, and water – and no one to talk to but each other. Partly a survival story, this is a tale of two people who think they aren’t alike at all until they look for the things they have in common. Grades 3-6.
Please remember to submit your order by November 30, 2008, using the order form enclosed;
send it only to the OSCI address on the form, NOT to Wisconsin Braille’s P.O. Box.
Teachers, please feel free to distribute this information to the parents of your students
so they can order as well. You are also able to locate our book offerings, both past
and current, on our web site: www.wisbrl.org. You may order up to five books from the
composite list on our site in addition to ones from this year’s collection. You should
receive your books in the spring of 2009 before school dismisses for summer vacation.
Thanks! Teachers, please feel free to distribute this information to the parents of
your students so they can order as well. You are also able to locate our book offerings,
both past and current, here on our web site. Thanks!
Sandy Adams, Alison McKee and Marilyn Harmon,
Special Book Project Committee
Click here for a printable order form
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