Coerr, Eleanor.

Sadako and the thousand paper cranes / by Eleanor Coerr ; paintings by Ronald Himler. - New York : Putnam, 1977. - 64 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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.

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Sasaki, Sadako, 1943-1955.


Leukemia.
Atomic bomb--Physiological effect.
World War II


Hiroshima (Japan)--Bombardment, 1945.

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