Format:
Book
Author:
Coerr, Eleanor.
Title:
Sadako and the thousand paper cranes / by Eleanor Coerr ; paintings by Ronald Himler.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Puffin, 1999.
Description:
79 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
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.
Other Author:
Himler, Ronald.
Notes:
Originally published: New York : Putnam, 1977.
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.
LCCN:
00268856
ISBN:
0698118022 (pbk.)
Other Number:
43254690
System Availability:
20
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
1049810
Call Number:
JB SA78C
Course Reserves:
0
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20