Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
by Eleanor Coerr


  



Based on a true story, Hiroshima-born Sadako fights for her life when she discovers that she has the "atom bomb disease," leukemia. Recalling a Japanese legend that says if a sick person folds one thousand cranes, the gods will grant her wish and make her healthy again, Sadako sets to work folding paper cranes. Ages 7- 12

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