Eleanor Coerr
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
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.
3) Sadako
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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
Josefina the chicken is too tough to eat and too old to lay eggs, so when Faith's family begins their wagon trip west, Pa warns that if Josefina causes any problems out she goes! Faith's devotion to her beloved pet shines through as she recounts their trip - and the chicken's misadventures - in the patches she sews for her story quilt, in this sweet tale of love and hope.
Author
Language
English
Description
Carlotta the Great is the best lady balloonist in America, as well as Ariel's mother, and Ariel longs to ride in the basket herself someday. The thrill of Ariel's first hydrogen balloon ride is breathtakingly presented in this exciting story based on a real ballooning family of the 1800s.
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...