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How to Solve a Problem: The Rise (and Falls) of a Rock-Climbing Champion
By Ashima Shiraishi. 2020
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Hobbies and crafts, Adventure and exploration, Fitness
Human-transcribed braille
From Ashima Shiraishi, one of the world's youngest and most skilled climbers, comes a true story of strength and perseverance--in…
rock climbing and in life.To a rock climber, a boulder is called a "problem," and you solve it by climbing to the top. There are twists and turns, falls and scrapes, and obstacles that seem insurmountable until you learn to see the possibilities within them. And then there is the moment of triumph, when there's nothing above you but sky and nothing below but a goal achieved.Ashima Shiraishi draws on her experience as a world-class climber in this story that challenges readers to tackle the problems in their own lives and rise to greater heights than they would have ever thought possible.Available copies:
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Setting the table for one person: activities for developing spatial concepts 1
By Elżbieta Więckowska. 2008
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Tactile booksHobbies and crafts, Lifestyle
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This is the first in a series of tactile books for blind children that are developed for the purpose of…
teaching spatial relations. This book is the result of many years of work on the part of the authors in helping blind children learn about their environment and in the reading of tactile graphics. Grades K-3. 2008.Available copies:
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Passage to freedom: the Sugigara story
By Ken Mochizuki. 2003
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War, World War II
Human-transcribed braille
Mochizuki tells the story of how Chiune Sugihara saved thousands of Jewish refugees from the Holocaust while he was a…
diplomat in Lithuania in the early 1940's. When Japan refused his request to issue visas to the refugees Sugihara went ahead and wrote the visas anyway, allowing thousands of people to escape the country and Nazi persecution. Grades K-3 and older readers. 2003.Available copies:
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Knights in shining armor
By Gail Gibbons. 1995
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European history, War
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Describes knights of the Middle Ages -- what they did, how they became knights, and how they lived. Grades K-3.
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