What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

i read this in the 90s in maybe 4th or 5th grade i was a chapter book

My first thought was Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, but she's not a princess.

How old is the princess in the story?

omg that may be it!!

Google Books preview of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (1977) by Eleanor Coerr- Rainbowheart's suggestion:

https://books.google.com/books?id=NVw... There are different cover images.

Kirkus Reviews: "Sadako is the twelve-year-old Hiroshima girl who died in 1955 of leukemia, ""the atomic bomb disease,"" and is remembered today by the Japanese children who place folded paper cranes beneath her statue on Peace Day, the anniversary of the bomb. Aided by Sadako's letters, Coerr recreates the last year of her life, introducing the little girl as a high-spirited fast runner chosen to represent her class in the big relay race on Field Day. Then running begins to make her dizzy, and the rest occurs in the hospital where she sets out to fold 1,000 paper cranes--an achievement which, according to legend, will induce the gods to make a sick person well. Sadako folds 644 cranes, then Coerr has her die watching them as they seem to fly above her hospital bed..."

Should we mark your request as Solved?

i read that one as well. the book im thinking about was about a princess, the moon, and a lake…sorry so vague.

No worries. Can you tell us more about the plot (re: moon, lake, maybe cranes)?