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Author Coerr, Eleanor, author

Title Sadako / Eleanor Coerr ; illustrated by Ed Young
Edition FIrst Impression
Published New York : Putnam, [1993]
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1993]
©1993
©1993

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 W'PONDS CRC  362.19699419 Coe/Sad  AVAILABLE
Description 48 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
regular print
Series Older picture books 5-7 years
Older picture books. 5-7 years
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
Notes "Inspired by Sadako and the thousand paper cranes"--Title page verso
Ed Young (born November 28, 1931), né Ed (Tse-chun) Young, is a Chinese-born American illustrator and writer of children's picture books. He won one Caldecott Medal for the year's best American picture book and for his lifetime contribution as a children's illustrator he was twice the U.S. nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award
Revised edition of: Sadako and the thousand paper cranes. c1977
660 Lexile
Audience Elementary Grade
Notes Accelerated Reader Grades 5-8 3.8 0.5 SD Quiz 9648 English non-fiction, vocabulary quiz available
Reading Counts RC 4.6 L500 2
Subject Sasaki, Sadako, 1943-1955 -- Fiction.
Sasaki, Sadako, 1943-1955 -- Juvenile literature.
Sasaki, Sadako, 1943-1955.
Sasaki, Sadako, 1943-1955.
Atomic bomb -- Physiological effect -- Juvenile literature.
Atomic bomb -- Physiological effect.
Leukemia in children -- Juvenile fiction.
Leukemia in children -- Juvenile literature.
Leukemia -- Juvenile fiction.
Origami -- Juvenile fiction.
Atomic bomb -- Physiological effect.
Death.
Leukemia.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Juvenile fiction.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Fiction.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.
Japan -- Juvenile fiction.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Author Coerr, Eleanor. Sadako and the thousand paper cranes
Young, Ed, illustrator
G.P. Putnam's Sons, publisher
LC no. 92041483
ISBN 0142401137
0329041495
0399217711
0698115880
0758735448
9780142401132
9780329041496
9780399217715
9780698115880
9780758735447
OTHER TI Sadako and the thousand paper cranes