Libraries for the Blind and Print Disabled

I know that the NLS already created a Newbery page in their Kids Zone, but it looks like its updates lag a bit.

Please feel free to add to or edit the list. I have not looked up many titles. I plan to work off of the NLS listing and see if more DB options are available, etc.

REFERENCES:

• http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberyhonors/newberymedal
• http://www.loc.gov/nls/children/awardbooks/newbery.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbery_Medal

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Author: Clare Vanderpool
AVAILABLE FORMATS:

• DB 72632 - Read by Jill Fox. Reading time: 8 hours, 51 minutes.
• BR 19189 - 2 volumes.

ANNOTATION: Great Depression. Drifter Gideon Tucker sends his twelve-year-old daughter Abilene to stay with his friend Shady Howard, a saloon-owner-turned-pastor, in Manifest, Kansas, where Gideon grew up. Abilene discovers a cigar box full of papers and odds and ends that lead her to long-held secrets.

Author: Jack Gantos
AVAILABLE FORMATS:

• DB 74209 - Read by Jack Fox. Reading time: 6 hours, 50 minutes.
• BR 19490 - 2 volumes.

ANNOTATION: Norvelt, Pennsylvania; 1962. Twelve-year-old Jack Gantos is spending his summer grounded for various offenses and helping his elderly neighbor. As part of his duties, Jack must perform an unusual chore that involves the newly dead, molten wax, underage driving, and more.

Author: Eugene Yelchin
AVAILABLE FORMATS:

• DB 75693 - Read by Ken Kliban. Reading time: 1 hour, 51 minutes.

ANNOTATION: In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, ten-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist. But when the police take his dad away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced to examine his own perceptions, values, and beliefs.

Author: Thanhha Lai
AVAILABLE FORMATS:

• DB 74820 - Read by Gabriella Cavallero. Reading time: 1 hour, 56 minutes.

ANNOTATION: Ten-year-old H ̉writes poems to chronicle the life-changing year of 1975, when H,̉ her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.

Author: Katherine Applegate
AVAILABLE FORMATS:

• DB 75687 - Read by Joe Peck. Reading time: 3 hours, 37 minutes.
• BR 19679 - 2 volumes.

ANNOTATION: Ivan the gorilla has lived comfortably for years in a down-and-out, circus-themed mall. But when baby elephant Ruby arrives, Ivan decides that he must find her a better life.

Author: Steve Sheinkin
AVAILABLE FORMATS:

• DB 75708 - Read by Bob Moore. Reading time: 7 hours, 11 minutes.
• BR 19890 - IN PROCESS

ANNOTATION: Award-winning author recounts the history of the atom bomb and the race among the United States, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union to build–or steal–the deadly weapon during World War II.

By Laura Amy Schlitz
AVAILABLE FORMATS:

• DB - IN PROCESS
• BR 19840 - IN PROCESS

ANNOTATION: 1860. Puppeteer Grisini and his two orphaned assistants are accused of kidnapping when a young girl vanishes shortly after they perform at her twelfth birthday party. The trio flees London–but the two orphans are caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient rival.

Author: Sheila Turnage
NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT