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. Includes instructions on folding paper cranes.

A boy and his father come from far away to visit the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington and find the name of the boy's grandfather, who was killed in the conflict.

Provides an overview of the history, culture, and ways of life of the Navajo Indians.

When Francisco, a young Mexican American boy, tries to help his grandfather find work, he discovers that even though the old man cannot speak English, he has something even more valuable to teach Francisco.

As she and her family travel the Oregon Trail in 1843, Lucy's puppies persist in creating trouble.

Jim's anxieties on his first day of school are happily forgotten when he makes a new friend.

Everyone in the family tries to bribe the new baby into being born, but a kiss from Father finally does it.

An introduction to the lives of Lewis and Clark and to the exploratory expedition they led from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean in the early nineteenth century.

A woman describes her experiences living with her husband in a sod house on the Dakota prairie.