| Description |
48 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
Older picture books 5-7 years |
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Older picture books. 5-7 years
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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 |
| Notes |
"Inspired by Sadako and the thousand paper cranes"--Title page verso |
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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 |
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Revised edition of: Sadako and the thousand paper cranes. c1977 |
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660 Lexile |
| Audience |
Elementary Grade |
| Notes |
Accelerated Reader Grades 5-8 3.8 0.5 SD Quiz 9648 English non-fiction, vocabulary quiz available |
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Reading Counts RC 4.6 L500 2 |
| Subject |
Sasaki, Sadako, 1943-1955 -- Fiction.
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Sasaki, Sadako, 1943-1955 -- Juvenile literature.
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Sasaki, Sadako, 1943-1955.
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Sasaki, Sadako, 1943-1955.
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Atomic bomb -- Physiological effect -- Juvenile literature.
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Atomic bomb -- Physiological effect.
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Leukemia in children -- Juvenile fiction.
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Leukemia in children -- Juvenile literature.
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Leukemia -- Juvenile fiction.
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Origami -- Juvenile fiction.
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Atomic bomb -- Physiological effect.
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Death.
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Leukemia.
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Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Juvenile fiction.
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Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Fiction.
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Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.
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Japan -- Juvenile fiction.
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Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Author |
Coerr, Eleanor.
Sadako and the thousand paper cranes
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Young, Ed, illustrator
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G.P. Putnam's Sons, publisher
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| LC no. |
92041483 |
| ISBN |
0142401137 |
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0329041495 |
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0399217711 |
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0698115880 |
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0758735448 |
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9780142401132 |
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9780329041496 |
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9780399217715 |
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9780698115880 |
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9780758735447 |
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