Mieko and the Fifth Treasure
by Eleanor Coerr | 
The Big Wave
by Pearl S. Buck | 
Number the Stars
by Lois Lowry | 
The Midwife's Apprentice
by Karen Cushman | 
Johnny Tremain
by Esther Forbes | 
Lyddie
by Katherine Paterson | 
Roller Skates
by Ruth Sawyer | 
Sarah Bishop
by Scott O'Dell | 
The Tale of Murasaki
by Liza Dalby | 
The Master Puppeteer
by Katherine Paterson | 
Of Nightingales That Weep
by Katherine Paterson | 
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
by John Boyne | 
Out Of The Dust
by Karen Hesse | 
The Prince and the Pauper
by Mark Twain | 
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
by Howard Pyle | 
Goodnight Mister Tom
by Michelle Magorian | 
The Education of Little Tree
by Forrest Carter | 
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
by Jean Lee Latham | 
The Sign of the Beaver
by Elizabeth George Speare | 
The Snow Goose
by Paul Gallico |
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.