Ronald Himler

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.

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

"In a flowerless war-torn world, a young boy masters the skills that may save his family from poverty. Flashes of bright colour symbolize the hope that shines from this mud-dominated world" Cf. Our choice, 1999-2000.

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.

Katie, whose family is not sympathetic to the rebel soldiers during the American Revolution, hides under the clothes in her mother's wedding trunk when they invade her home. When raiders attack Katie's house during the American Revolution, she tries to save her family's possessions.

A boy makes it possible for an old man in their primitive tribe to go in search of other men in far-off places.

Traces the life of the French nobleman who fought for democracy in revolutions in both the United States and France.

A young boy deals with the loss of his beloved cat, Charlie, eventually accepting the arrival of another, very different cat.

When a sick boy dies, his friends and classmates remember him by building a schoolyard pond in his memory.

A young girl looks forward to receiving mittens and oranges and candy at church on a Christmas Eve during the Depression, and when these special treats are stolen, her spirit sinks.