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¡Calendar Mysteries #10:
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¡Cam Jansen and the First
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GRADES 7-9
¡Crash
¡ Home of the Brave
¡ Joey Pigza Loses Control
¡Horrible Harry and
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¡ Julie of the Wolves
¡ The Puppy Place #7: Scout
¡ The Old Willis Place
¡The Secrets of Droon #5:
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¡ The Phantom Tollbooth
GRADES 4-6
¡ All the Answers
¡Auggie & Me: Three
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¡ Because of Mr. Terupt
¡ The Cruisers
GENERAL INTEREST
¡ A Boy Called Slow
¡Giants of Science:
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¡ In the Heart of the Sea
¡Charlie and the Chocolate
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¡Feathers
¡The Hypnotists #3: The
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¡ The Sign of the Beaver
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FALL/WINTER 2015-16
Special Collection Catalog
This catalog contains selected titles from Braille Institute’s collection
of brailled books for children and teens. These selections are free
to readers and their families for a limited time. Orders must be
postmarked by December 15, 2015.
You May Order:
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total of 4 braille-only books from the Fiction and General
Interest sections
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• 1 TOP DOT® book and 1 braille-only book
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• 1 TacTales® kit and 1 braille-only book
or
• Unlimited braille book downloads from Digital Dots
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MULTISENSORY STORYBOOK KITS
Each Multisensory Storybook Kit includes:
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picture book with uncontracted braille overlays
(Dots for Tots) or a large-print, contracted braille and
tactile-illustrated storybook (TacTales).
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• T OP DOT is an exciting new set of Special Collection books
in uncontracted braille designed to bridge the reading
experiences between Dots for Tots and TacTales. Created
especially for children aged 4 to 7, as a tool for parents to
expand their child’s vocabulary.
Polar Bear Night
Ten, Nine, Eight
Top Dot
Thanksgiving Gift
Tactales
The Yoga Game
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DOTS FOR TOTS
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Polar Bear Night
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Lauren Thompson
One clear night, a polar bear cub wakes inside her warm den.
Something in the moonlit quietly beckons her. So, the little cub sets
out for the snow and sky, sea and ice with the moon following along.
Ten, Nine, Eight
Molly Bang
This sweet story about a father and daughter turning bedtime into
playtime with a rhyming game.
TOP DOT®
This edition of Top Dot made possible
through the generosity of the
Don and Lorraine Freeberg Foundation.
Sensory Sophie & Stewart’s
Spectacular Thanksgiving Gift
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QU ITED
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Thanksgiving is just around the corner and the festivities are about
to begin. However, Sensory Sophie and Stew’s grandmother is ill and
won’t be able to join the family this year. So the dynamic duo are on
a mission to show their love and appreciation for everything grandma
does for them! This Top Dot edition offers fun craft ideas, and a
“thankful twist”, to help everyone get into the holiday spirit.
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TACTALES
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The Yoga Game: By the Sea Ord
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Kathy Beliveau
The first book in The Yoga Game series invites children of all ages to
discover the magic of nature, while learning the concepts of balance,
breath and focus. Play with the words, guess the riddles and enjoy
practicing yoga, down by the sea.
PRE-K – GRADE 1
Available in UEB contracted & EBAE uncontracted
Froggy Goes to School
Jonathan London
It’s the first day of school and Froggy is more than just a little
nervous. Will he ever pull himself together in time to make it to the
classroom?
Henry and Mudge
and the Long Weekend
Cynthia Rylant
It’s a cold, wet, yucky weekend and Henry and Mudge have nothing
to do. That is until Henry’s mother suggests they build a castle down
in the basement.
Katy and the Big Snow
Virginia Lee Burton
Katy is a brave and untiring tractor. She works hard during the
summer as a bulldozer, but when a winter storm hits in the town, it’s
up to Katy to clear the roads.
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Little Bear’s Special Friend
Claire Freedman
Little Bear has woken up early from his winter sleep, and meets a
little snowman named Sparkly. The two soon become best friends,
but as the warmth of spring sets in, Sparkly must go away to where
the snow never melts. Will Little Bear ever see his friend again?
Those Shoes
Maribeth Boelts
All Jeremy wants is a pair of those shoes, just like the shoes everyone
is wearing at school. Unfortunately his grandma says they don’t have
room for “want” just need. Soon Jeremy learns the things he has are
worth more than the things he wants.
GRADES 2-3
CALENDAR MYSTERIES #10:
October Ogre
Ron Roy
It’s Halloween and the Shangri-la Hotel has been transformed into
a haunted house. Bradley, Brian, Nate, and Lucy are ready for some
scary fun, but then they notice that none of the children who go into
the hotel, don’t come back out. Ghosts and witches aren’t real right?
Cam Jansen and the First Day
of School Mystery #22
David A. Adler
It’s the first day of school for Cam Jansen and Eric. But before the
day even begins, two policemen come and arrest their new teacher,
Ms. Benson. She insists there must be a mistake, and it’s up to Cam
to solve this mystery.
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Horrible Harry and the Holidaze
Suzy Kline
The holiday season is here and the kids in Room 3B are learning
about all the different ways people celebrate. Everyone is feeling
festive except Harry. It’s clear something is bothering him, but what
could it be?
THE PUPPY PLACE #7: Scout
Ellen Miles
Scout is a beautiful German shepherd puppy with two families lined
up to adopt her. But when both families back out, it’s up to the
Petersons to save the day. Scout has the skills to be a search and
rescue dog, but can Charles and Lizzie find her a home so she can
reach her full potential?
THE SECRETS OF DROON #5:
The Great Ice Battle
Tony Abbott
BRRR! Jaffa City is under a spell of ice and snow. Even Galen the
wizard is frozen solid. Can Eric, Julie, Neal, and Princess Keeah
discover a way to break Lord Sparr’s curse? They need to hurry or
they might get frozen too.
GRADES 4-6
All the Answers
Kate Messner
What if your pencil had all the answers? Would you ace every test?
When Ava finds a scratched up pencil, she doodles like she would
with any other. But when she writes a question in the margin of her
math quiz she hears a clear answer in a voice that no one else hears.
Soon Ava realizes it’s sometimes best to live without all the answers.
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Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories
R.J. Palacio
Three stories offering an extra peek into Auggie from Wonder,
through the eyes of Julian, the bully; Christopher, Auggie’s oldest
friend; and Charlotte, Auggie’s new friend at school.
Because of Mr. Terupt
Rob Buyea
It’s the start of the school year for seven kids at Snow Hill School.
Mr. Terupt their new fifth grade teacher knows how to deal with
all of them. He makes the classroom fun, but doesn’t let them get
away with much. But on a snowy winter day an accident changes
everything and everyone.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl
Willy Wonka is opening his chocolate factory for the first time to five
lucky children who find the golden tickets hidden in his chocolate
bars. Besides a lifetime of chocolate, the children get to tour his
mysterious factory and encounter all sorts of silliness and dilemmas.
Feathers
Jacqueline Woodson
“Hope is a thing with feathers” starts the poem Frannie is reading in
school, but she hasn’t given hope much thought lately. There are so
many other things to think about. During a winter full of surprises,
Frannie starts seeing things in a whole new light.
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THE HYPNOTISTS #3: The Dragonfly Effect
Gordon Korman
Jax Opus has reluctantly agreed to let the government protect him
and his family from enemies who want to use his hypnotic power
for evil. But protection has its price, and Jax soon learns that the
government is going to want something in return.
The Sign of the Beaver
Elizabeth George Speare
Thirteen-year-old Matt is a little apprehensive about being left alone
to guard their new cabin in the wilderness. When he meets Attean,
a boy in the Beaver clan, he begins to understand their way of life,
and their growing problem in adapting to the white man and the
changing frontier.
GRADES 7-9
Crash
Jerry Spinelli
Crash Coogan is a seventh-grade football star. He has always been
aggressive, and sometimes too much. He enjoys his rough, macho
behavior until he meets an unusual neighbor who forces him to think
about his life and how he treats those around him.
Home of the Brave
Katherine Applegate
After his mother goes missing in Africa, young Kek is sent to America
to live. He experiences winter for the first time in Minnesota. While
anxiously waiting on word about his mother, he slowly makes friends
and finds warmth in his memories and his new country.
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Joey Pigza Loses Control
Jack Gantos
Joey Pigza takes medication to keep from getting too wired. He’s
spending the summer visiting his dad, but his father is not an easy
guy to love. Carter Pigza thinks Joey can be a normal kid without his
meds. Joey wants to please his dad more than anything, and he’ll
play by his rules even if those rules don’t make sense.
Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead George
When life in her small Eskimo village becomes dangerous, Julie (or
Miyax as she is known in her village) runs away only to find herself
lost in the Alaskan wilderness. She tries to survive by copying the
ways of the wolf pack she encounters. But when she finds her way
back to civilization, she is torn between her old and new lives. Is she
Miyax of the Eskimos or Julie of the wolves?
The Cruisers
Walter Dean Myers
Zander and his friends start their own newspaper called The Cruiser.
It’s a means for speaking out, keeping the peace and expressing
what they believe. When the school launches a mock Civil War,
Zander and his friends are forced to consider the true meaning
of democracy, and what it costs to stand up for a cause with
unexpected results.
The Old Willis Place
Mary Downing Hahn
Diana and her brother Georgie have been living in the woods behind
the old Willis place for what seems like forever. They aren’t allowed
to leave the property or show themselves to anyone. But when
a new caretaker comes to live there with his daughter, Diana is
tempted to break the rules and finally have a friend.
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The Phantom Tollbooth
Esther Hoskins Forbes
For Milo, everything is a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously
appears in his room, he drives through only because he has nothing
better to do. But on the other side things seem different, and
somewhere along the way, Milo realizes life is anything but dull.
GENERAL INTEREST
A Boy Called Slow
Joseph Bruchac
Anxious to be giving a name as strong and brave as his father,
a proud Lakota Sioux grows into manhood. He acts with careful
deliberation, determination, and bravery and eventually earns the
new name of Sitting Bull.
Giants of Science: Charles Darwin
Kathleen Krull
All his life, Charles Darwin hated controversy. During a fiveyear voyage on the HMS Beagle, he began piecing together an
explanation about how all living things change and adapt. However it
took him twenty years to release his theory for fear of backlash.
In the Heart of the Sea
Nathaniel Philbrick
On November 20, 1820, the whaling ship Essex was rammed and
sunk by an angry whale, sending the twenty-one-man crew into
three leaky lifeboats in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
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DIGITAL DOTS
A Download Service of Special Collection
for High School Readers
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Eight Tales of Terror
Edgar Allan Poe
Eerie… Weird… Terrifying! Edgar Allan Poe’s Eight Tales of Terror
feature such short-story classics as The Fall of the House of Usher,
The Mask of Red Death, and The Cask of the Amontillado to give you
chills for Halloween.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J.K. Rowling
For twelve long years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an
infamous prisoner named Sirius Black, who was said to be the heir
apparent to the Dark Lord, Voldemort. Now he has escaped. Harry
Potter isn’t safe, not even within the walls of his magical school,
surrounded by his friends. Because on top of it all, there may well be
a traitor in their midst.
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I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for
Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Malala Yousafzai
The story of Malala’s journey from the Taliban controlled Swat Valley
in Pakistan, where she was shot in the head for fighting for her right
to an education, to the halls of the United Nations, becoming the
youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Wonder
R.J. Palacio
August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now,
has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting fifth
grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated
as an ordinary kid—but his new classmates can’t get past Auggie’s
extraordinary face.
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