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Sadako /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coerr, Eleanor
Other Authors: Young, Ed (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Putnam, [1993]
Subjects:
Leukemia in children > Juvenile literature.
Sasaki, Sadako, > 1943-1955 > Juvenile literature.
Atomic bomb > Physiological effect > Juvenile literature.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1945.
Leukemia.
Sasaki, Sadako, > 1943-1955.
Atomic bomb > Physiological effect.
Death.
Description
Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 volume (unpaged), 48 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
ISBN:0399217711