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Eleanor Coerr
After several dizzy spells send Hiroshima-born Sadako to the doctor, the budding school track star finds out she has leukemia–known as the atom bomb disease. But she faces life with…
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When the bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Mieko’s nearby village was turned into ruins, and her hand was badly injured. Mieko loves to do calligraphy, but now she can barely…
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Hospitalized with 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…
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Illustrated by Darcie ParkFrom 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…
This multicultural children’s book contains both English and Japanese script along with beautiful, colorful illustrations.
Circus Day in Japan is the warmly-illustrated story of an exciting day spent by two…
Animated pictures capture the drama and warmth of this historically based, affectionate story of good and bad times on a 19th-century wagon-train journey. Illustrations.
Japanese legend holds that if a person who is ill makes a 1,000 paper cranes, the gods will grant that person’s wish to be well again. Beautiful illustrations by Caldecott-medalist…
Based on a true story, young Sadako faces the battle of her life when she is diagnosed with atomic bomb disease (leukemia). She turns to her native Japanese beliefs and…
Animated pictures capture the drama and warmth of this historically based, affectionate story of good and bad times on a 19th-century wagon-train journey. Coerr packs strong emotions into the story…
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…
Eleanor Coerr,Carolyn Croll (Illustrator)
Originally published: New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, 1981.
