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Sadako and the thousand paper cranes / Eleanor Coerr ; paintings by Ronald Himler.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Puffin modern classicsPublisher: New York : Puffin Books, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group, 2004Copyright date: ©1977Edition: Puffin Modern Classics editionDescription: 80 pages : illustrations ; 18 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0142401137
  • 9780142401132
  • 9780142404409
  • 0142404403
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
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.Summary: The star of her school’s running team, Sadako is lively and athletic…until the dizzy spells start. Then she must face the hardest race of her life—the race against time. Based on a true story, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes celebrates the courage that makes one young woman a heroine in Japan.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's Fiction COERR ELEANOR Available 33111011106156
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Fiction COERR ELEANOR Available 33111011224835
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"An extraordinary book, one no reader will fail to find compelling and unforgettable." -- Booklist , starred review


The star of her school's running team, Sadako is lively and athletic...until the dizzy spells start. Then she must face the hardest race of her life--the race against time. Based on a true story, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes celebrates the courage that makes one young woman a heroine in Japan.


"[The] story speaks directly to young readers of the tragedy of Sadako's death and, in its simplicity, makes a universal statement for 'peace in the world." -- The Horn Book "The story is told tenderly but with neither a morbid nor a sentimental tone: it is direct and touching." -- BCCB

Originally published: New York : Putnam, 1977.

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.

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.

The star of her school’s running team, Sadako is lively and athletic…until the dizzy spells start. Then she must face the hardest race of her life—the race against time. Based on a true story, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes celebrates the courage that makes one young woman a heroine in Japan.

Ages 8-12.

Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.1 1.0 436.

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