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Author Coerr, Eleanor.

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

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Puffin, 1999.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 1st Fl Juvenile Fiction  J Coerr    ---  Available
Description 79 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note Originally published: New York : Putnam, 1977.
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.
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, illustrator.
ISBN 9780812403671
0812403673

 
    
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