Title Sadako and the thousand paper cranes / by Eleanor Coerr ; illustrations by Marianne Yamaguchi

Edition Second Published Sydney : Hodder & Stoughton, 1981, c1977 Sydney : Hodder & Stoughton, 1981

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W'PONDS CRC	JUNIOR FICTION Coe/Sat		AVAILABLE

Description 61 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm Series Stoat books Stoat books Summary Summary: Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, twelve-year-old Sadako Sasaki races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so, a sick person will become healthy Analysis Children's stories in English American writers, 1945- - Texts Notes First published: New York : Putnam, 1977 For children Audience For 9-10 year old readers Notes West Australian Young Readers' Book Award : Younger Readers, 1981 winner Subject Sasaki, Sadako, 1943-1955 -- Juvenile literature. Sasaki, Sadako, 1943-1955 -- Juvenile fiction. Sasaki, Sadako, 1943-1955. Sasaki, Sadako SUBJECT American university studies. Series XIX, General literature http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84711408 -- Juvenile http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001685 -- Japan. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78089021 Subject Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi -- Juvenile fiction. Atomic bomb -- Physiological effect -- Juvenile literature. Atomic bomb -- Physiological effect -- Juvenile fiction. Children -- Death -- Juvenile fiction. Death -- Juvenile fiction. Death -- Juvenile literature. Legends -- Japan -- Juvenile fiction. Leukemia in children -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi -- Biography. Leukemia in children -- Juvenile fiction. Leukemia in children -- Juvenile literature. Leukemia in children -- Patients -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. Leukemia -- Juvenile literature. Leukemia, Radiation-induced -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi. Origami -- Juvenile fiction. Radiation injuries -- Japan -- Juvenile fiction. Readers (Primary) Terminally ill children -- Juvenile fiction. Terminally ill children -- Juvenile literature. Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Biography. Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Juvenile fiction. Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Juvenile literature. Japan -- Legends -- Juvenile fiction. Genre/Form Sound recordings. Fiction. Biographies. Author Yamaguchi, Marianne. LC no. 02006618 ISBN 0340266074 034026618X

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