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Book
1986
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.
4 available of 6 items
Book
1999
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.
21 available of 24 items
Book
2004
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.
7 available of 9 items
Book
1995
Sixteen-year-old Bill finds adventure when he becomes a rider for the Pony Express (though his letters home never hint at the dangers he encounters).
4 available of 5 items
1 available of 1 items
Book
1981
Ariel almost causes her famous mother to lose a balloon race and then helps her win it.
8 available of 8 items
Book
1988
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.
3 available of 3 items
Book
2010
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.
0 available of 1 items
Book
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.
2 available of 2 items
Book
1993
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 available of 4 items
94 available of 94 items
CD
Tells the true story of Sadako Sasaki, a 12-year old Japanese girl whose life has touched the hearts of millions of people. Inspired by an old legend, Sadako began folding paper cranes in hopes of overcoming an illness...
1 available of 1 items
13 available of 13 items
8 available of 8 items
Book
2003
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 drawin...
5 available of 5 items
Book
1976
Describes the experiences, from birth to mating, of a young kangaroo living in the Australian bush.
1 available of 1 items
Book
1983
An Indian boy rings the Mission bells to warn of danger and signal safety when pirates attack.
1 available of 1 items
1 available of 1 items
Book
1976
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.
1 available of 1 items
Ebook
2004
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.