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Book Cover
Book
Author Coerr, Eleanor.

Title Sadako and the thousand paper cranes / by Eleanor Coerr ; paintings by Ronald Himler
Published New York : Dell, 1977

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 MELB CRC  952.195 COE-S  AVAILABLE
Description 64 pages : illustrations
Series Yearling book
Yearling book.
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
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 "A Yearling book."
"RL: 5.0 -- p. [4] of cover."
Subject Sasaki, Sadako, 1943-1955 -- Juvenile literature.
Sasaki, Sadako, 1943-1955.
Atomic bomb -- Physiological effect -- Juvenile literature.
Leukemia in children -- Juvenile literature.
Terminally ill children -- Juvenile literature.
Atomic bomb -- Physiological effect.
Death.
Leukemia.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Juvenile literature.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Author Himler, Ronald.
ISBN 0440474655