Sadako and the thousand paper cranes

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64 pages

English language

Published Nov. 20, 1977 by Putnam, Putnam Juvenile.

ISBN:
9780399205200

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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.

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Subjects

  • Sasaki, Sadako, 1943-1955 -- Juvenile literature.
  • Sasaki, Sadako, 1943-1955.
  • Leukemia in children -- Juvenile literature.
  • Atomic bomb -- Physiological effect -- Juvenile literature.
  • Leukemia.
  • Atomic bomb -- Physiological effect.
  • Death.
  • Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Juvenile literature.
  • Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.