79 pages
English language
Published Nov. 20, 2000 by Scholastic.
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
Subjects
- Sasaki, Sadako, -- 1943-1955 -- Juvenile literature
- Leukemia in children -- Juvenile literature
- Atomic bomb -- Physiological effect -- Juvenile literature
- Death -- Juvenile literature
- Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Juvenile literature
Places
- Hiroshima-shi (Japan)