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Author Coerr, Eleanor.

Title Sadako and the thousand paper cranes / by Eleanor Coerr ; paintings by Ronald Himler.

Publication Info. New York : Putnam, [1977]
©1977

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Location Call No. Status
 Canton Public Library - Children's Department  J FICTION COERR    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 920 SAS    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 920 SAS c.2  Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Children's Story Time Materials  J 362.2 COERR    Check Shelf
Description 80 pages : illustrations ; 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.
Note Includes a section on "How to fold a paper crane."
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.
Note Celebrating 25 years - on cover
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.1 1.0 436.
Subject Leukemia in children -- Juvenile literature.
Sasaki, Sadako, 1943-1955 -- Juvenile literature.
Atomic bomb -- Physiological effect -- Juvenile literature.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Juvenile literature.
Leukemia.
Sasaki, Sadako, 1943-1955.
Atomic bomb -- Physiological effect.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.
Death.
Added Author Himler, Ronald.
ISBN 0399237992: $16.99
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