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Sadako and the thousand paper cranes

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Coerr, Eleanor
Other Authors:	Himler, Ronald (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Puffin, 1999.
Subjects:	Leukemia in children > Juvenile nonfiction. Sasaki, Sadako, > 1943-1955 > Juvenile nonfiction. Atomic bomb > Physiological effect > Juvenile nonfiction. Hiroshima-shi (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1945 > Juvenile nonfiction.
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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.
Item Description:	Originally published: New York : Putnam, 1977.
Physical Description:	79 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:	0698118022 9780698118027
Author Notes:	Eleanor Coerr was born in 1922 in Kamsack, Saskatchewan, Canada. Before becoming a children's book author, she was a newspaper reporter, an editor of a column for children, and taught children's literature at Monterey Peninsula College and creative writing at Chapman College in California. Her works include Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Mieko and the Fifth Treasure, Sadako, and The Big Balloon Race. She died on November 22, 2010 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography)