New Releases by Eleanor Coerr

Ariel almost causes her famous mother to lose a balloon race and then helps her win it.

From the manmade glitter of the Las Vegas strip to the natural splendor of Lake Tahoe, Nevada''s riches go beyond the silver and gold found in Virginia City. S is for Silver showcases the hardy wildlife (the Desert Bighorn Sheep and the desert tortoise) and even hardier pioneers (the builders of the Hoover Dam) who shaped Nevada''s landscape and character.Eleanor Coerr began her professional life as a newspaper reporter and editor of a column for children. She taught children''s literature at Monterey Peninsula College and creative writing at Chapman College in California. For the past 25 years, Eleanor has been writing children''s books, lecturing, and visiting schools across the United States and abroad. Her previous children''s books include Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes and The Big Balloon Race. Eleanor shares her time between Henderson, Nevada and Pebble Beach, California. Darcie Park was born and raised in Long Beach, California, and started drawing when she was five years old. She graduated with a BFA in illustration form California State University, Long Beach. She started her freelance illustration career in college and illustrated her first children''s book, The Reluctant Dragon, her first year out of college. Darcie makes her home in Lake Tahoe.

Chang longs for a pony to ease the loneliness he feels in his new country, but even in Gold Rush California, enough gold to buy a pony is hard to come by

Todos deben deshacerse de algo para viajar en los furgones. Pero Esperanza no puede dejar a su mascota ¡que es una gallina llamada Josefina! ¿Podrá esta gallina vieja ganarse un puesto en un viaje tan difícil?

“An extraordinary book, one no reader will fail to find compelling and unforgettable.” —Booklist, starred review The star of her school’s running team, Sadako is lively and athletic…until the dizzy spells start. Then she must face the hardest race of her life—the race against time. Based on a true story, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes celebrates the courage that makes one young woman a heroine in Japan. "[The] story speaks directly to young readers of the tragedy of Sadako''s death and, in its simplicity, makes a universal statement for ''peace in the world.” —The Horn Book "The story is told tenderly but with neither a morbid nor a sentimental tone: it is direct and touching." —BCCB

Roman bygget på en autentisk historie om en japansk pige, der ti år efter atombombens fald over Hiroshima bliver dødeligt syg af radioaktiv stråling. Ifølge sagnet kan hun blive rask, hvis hun får klippet tusind papirtraner

Sadako Sasaki tenía tan sólo doce años cuando murió. Una terrible bomba atómica fue lanzada sobre su ciudad, Hiroshima, en Japón, cuando ella contaba dos años de edad. Diez años más tarde, enfermó de la leucemia como resultado de la radicación de aquella bomba. La autora ha querido destacar en Sadako su gran espíritu y valentía a la hora de afrontar el futuro que ella sabía que le esperaba.

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.

A story about Buffalo Bill and his exploits as a pony express rider.

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.

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. Full color.

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.

Details the giant panda''s life cycle in its natural habitat in the mountains of China.

Ariel and her mother, a famous 19th-century aeronaut, fly their balloon in a suspense-filled race. "A fast-action story [based on an actual event]. . . . Balloon fact and lingo are nicely woven into the story line, and [the] pictures add historical flavor." ''BL. A Reading Rainbow Selection Now the beloved characters and adventures from this popularline of books come to life with I Can Read Book & Cassettes.Each package includes a best-selling beginning readerstorybook and a lively audio recording featuring: Word-for-word narration Music and sound effects turn-the-page signals on Side I Uninterrupted reading on Side 2

Arthur decides to make Mother and Father special Christmas cookies as a present. But when the cookies are finally finished, they are hard as rocks! Can Arthur think of a way to turn this disaster into the best Christmas present ever?

An account of a gray whale calf taken from its mother for study in a sheltered environment before being returned to the sea.

Describes the experiences, from birth to mating, of a young kangaroo living in the Australian bush.

Youthful detectives investigate the mystery of the mixed-up smell surrounding a formerly empty old house that is rumored to be haunted.

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.

Details the giant panda''s life cycle in its natural habitat in the mountains of China.

A mischievous, golden Siamese cat is forgiven and honored by all of Bangkok when he solves the mystery of the missing shoes.