Most Popular Books by Ronald Himler

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

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.

In this fictional account of the folk song's origin, a girl writes a song that expresses her feelings about Jesus while dealing with the loss of her mother and life on the roads of Appalachia after her father becomes an itinerant preacher.

After the death of one of his seven cats, an old man finds how much he misses his cat as he goes about the activities of each day.

A small boy runs to a hilltop to greet the rising sun and home again to wake his parents.

A wordless picture book in the spirit of the Pied Piper of Hamelin; a free-spirited little boy spontaneously dances through town, wearing nothing but a smile, leading other children on a fun-filled romp.

As a little girl pedals her wooden giraffe through her neighborhood to the park, everyone she meets and all the sights around her are transformed into imaginary images that capture the action and fun of living in a city.

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.

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

In the late 1800s, Marianne travels westward on the Orphan Train in hopes of being placed with a caring family.

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.