Eleanor Coerr

Hiroshima-born Sadako is lively and athletic--the star of her school's running team. And then the dizzy spells start. Soon gravely ill with leukemia, the "atom bomb disease," Sadako faces her future with spirit and bravery. Recalling a Japanese legend, Sadako sets to work folding paper cranes. For the legend holds that if a sick person folds one thousand cranes, the gods will grant her wish and make her healthy again. Based on a true story, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes celebrates the extraordinary courage that made one young woman a heroine in Japan

While traveling west with her family in 1850, a young girl makes a patchwork quilt chronicling the experiences of the journey and reserves a special patch for her pet hen Josefina.

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.

Ariel almost causes her famous mother to lose a balloon race and then helps her win it.

In San Francisco during the 1850's gold rush, Chang, the son of Chinese immigrants, wants a pony but cannot afford one until his friend Big Pete finds a solution.

Describes how the French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi realized his dream of building the giant Statue of Liberty.

An Indian boy rings the Mission bells to warn of danger and signal safety when pirates attack.

An account of a gray whale calf taken from its mother for study in a sheltered environment before being returned to the sea.

A camel that was brought to the United States to be used as a pack animal causes a stir when it foils a bank robbery.

Youthful detectives investigate the mystery of the mixed-up smell surrounding a formerly empty old house that is rumored to be haunted.

Describes the experiences, from birth to mating, of a young kangaroo living in the Australian bush.

Details the giant panda's life cycle in its natural habitat in the mountains of China.

A boy of Taiwan uses twenty-five dragons to help him obtain a shiny red bicycle.

A mischievous, golden Siamese cat is forgiven and honored by all of Bangkok when he solves the mystery of the missing shoes.

A Japanese brother and sister take a train from the farm where they live into the city to go to their first circus, where they delight in the jugglers, the trapeze artists, and the big white elephant.

An introduction to the life and career of primatologist Jane Goodall.