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Overboard!: Survivor diaries (Survivor Diaries)
By Terry Lynn Johnson. 2017
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Adventure stories, Multi-cultural fiction, Animal stories, General fictionEnvironment, Social issues, Animals and wildlife, Travel and geography
Human-transcribed braille
Eleven-year-old Travis and twelve-year-old Marina, separated from their families after being thrown into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of…
Washington, battle hypothermia as they struggle to survive. Includes Coast Guard-approved cold-water survival tips. For grades 3-6. 2017We the Sea Turtles: A collection of island stories
By Michelle Kadarusman. 2023
DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Animal stories, Multi-cultural fiction, Short stories, General fictionGeneral non-fiction, Animals and wildlife, Social issues, Environment
Human-narrated audio
In a collection of powerful stories by Governor General’s Award-nominated author Michelle Kadarusman, eight children on islands around the world…
are each changed by a chance meeting with a turtle as they find their own grounding in an increasingly unpredictable world.Kobo and the Wishing Pictures
By Yoshie Noguchi, Dorothy W. Baruch. 1964
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Folklore, fables and fairy tales, Multi-cultural fictionCustoms and cultures
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Kobo is a small Japanese boy whose father paints ema, or wishing pictures, for so many customers that he finds…
no time to paint a single one for his own family-not even for Kobo, who wants one so badly to take to the shrine on Wishing Day. As the customers come and go, Kobo has a chance to observe many types of people and to consider many different kinds of wishes, none of which seems quite right for him. It is all very discouraging until, at last, he begins to get an idea, and then . . . But that is the secret of the story.In meeting Kobo and the many other interesting people in this book, the young reader is introduced to a number of the charming manners and customs of rural Japan, as well as to a number of situations that parallel those experienced by children almost everywhere. As the author expresses it in her introduction: "In this book there are many pictures of ema. We hope that the wishes shown with them, along with the story of Kobo and his family, will bridge customs and culture through our children's seeing that the children of Japan have the same human feeling of affection, of rivalry, of sadness and joy."