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Author Coerr, Eleanor.

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

Imprint New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1977.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Eureka Juvenile Non-Fiction  J362.7 Coe    ---  Available
Description 64 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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 Includes a section on "How to fold a paper crane."
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 Sasaki, Sadako, 1943-1955 -- Juvenile literature.
Leukemia in children -- Juvenile literature.
Atomic bomb -- Physiological effect -- Juvenile literature.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Juvenile literature.
Genre/Form Children's stories.
Added Author Himler, Ronald, illustrator.
ISBN 0399205209
0399610103

 
    
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