Eleanor Coerr
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
690L
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
Series
I can read book volume Level 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
Ariel almost causes her famous mother to lose a balloon race and then helps her win it.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
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.
7) Sadako
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 660L
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.