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Sadako and the thousand paper cranes /

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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: Himler, Ronald (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Putnam, ©1977.
Subjects:
Sasaki, Sadako, > 1943-1955 > Juvenile literature.
Leukemia in children > Juvenile literature.
Atomic bomb > Physiological effect > Juvenile literature.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1945 > Juvenile literature.
Sasaki, Sadako, > 1943-1955.
Leukemia.
Atomic bomb > Physiological effect.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1945.
Death.
Leucémie chez l'enfant > Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Bombe atomique > Effets physiologiques > Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Hiroshima (Japon) > Histoire > 1945 (Bombardement) > Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Leukemia in children.
Japan > Hiroshima-shi.
1945
Biography
collective biographies.
Literature.
Biographies.
History.
Juvenile works.
Historical fiction.
Littérature.
Table of Contents:
  • Good luck signs
  • Peace Day
  • Sadako's secret
  • A secret no longer
  • The Golden Crane
  • Kenji
  • Hundreds of wishes
  • Last days
  • Racing with the wind.