Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
About this book
Hiroshima-born Sadako is lively and athletic--the star of her school's running team. And then the dizzy spells start. Soon gravely ill with leukemia, the "atom bomb disease," Sadako faces her future with spirit and bravery. Recalling a Japanese legend, Sadako sets to work folding paper cranes. For the legend holds that if a sick person folds one thousand cranes, the gods will grant her wish and make her healthy again. Based on a true story, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes celebrates the extraordinary courage that made one young woman a heroine in Japan
Subjects
- accelerated reader
- accelerated reader - 4.7
- atomic bomb
- atomic bomb, juvenile literature
- atomic bomb, physiological effect
- bombardment of hiroshima-shi (japan : 1945) fast (ocolc)fst01352071 (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fas
- bombas atómicas
- children, fiction
- children's 12-up - fiction - history
- children's fiction
- collection:origami
- death
- efectos fisiológicos
- fiction
- foreign language study - spanish
- hiroshima-shi (japan)
- historia
- historical fiction
- history
- juvenile fiction
- juvenile literature
- leucemia
- leukemia
- leukemia in children
- leukemia, juvenile literature
- literatura juvenil
- muerte
- origami
- origami in literature
- physiological effect
- physiological effects
- psychological effect
- spanish: grades 4-7