Eleanor Coerr
4) Sadako
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Language
English
Description
Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
Author
Language
English
Description
From the manmade glitter of the Las Vegas strip to the natural splendor of Lake Tahoe, Nevada's riches go beyond the silver and gold found in Virginia City. S is for Silver showcases the hardy wildlife (the Desert Bighorn Sheep and the desert tortoise) and even hardier pioneers (the builders of the Hoover Dam) who shaped Nevada's landscape and character.
Author
Language
English
Description
One day, a beautiful cat with soft golden fur came to visit Dang and his sister Malee, who lived in Bangkok, the capital city of Thailand. It happened to be on Children's Day, a holiday that is celebrated with free rides and free things to eat for all the children of the city. So the children decided to take Golden Cat with them when they went to the amusement park, to bring them good luck until its owner was found, After a few free rides, they had...
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
©1993
Language
English
Description
Staying with her grandparents after the atomic bomb has been dropped on Nagasaki, ten-year-old Mieko feels that the happiness in her heart has departed forever and she will no longer be able to produce a beautiful drawing for the contest at school.
13) Jane Goodall
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1976
Language
English
Description
A biography of the woman whose childhood love of wildlife led her into the African bush to study chimpanzees and into later becoming a world-famous ethologist.
Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
Description
The drinking gourd: Now that Tommy Fuller knows that his family's house is a stop on the Underground Railroad, can the boy be trusted to help his father transport the slaves in the hay wayon to the next safe haven?
Hill of fire: The hil of fire Pablo and his father discover burning in their fields turns out to be Paricutin, the volcano that erupted in Mexico in 1943, and changed the lives of the people who lived nearby.
The Josefina Story Quilt:...