Sadako and the thousand paper cranes /
by Eleanor Coerr ; paintings by Ronald Himler.
- First Scholastic printing, January 2000
- New York : Scholastic, 1977
- 76 pages : illustrations 20 cm
- Inside/Inzone Books. .
Grades 6-8. Reading level: Grades 1-3 Reprint. Originally published in 1977. Formally referred to as The Exchange series
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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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Readers (Secondary) Reading comprehension--Juvenile literature. English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers--Juvenile literature. Leukemia in children--Juvenile literature. Atomic bomb--Physiological effect--Juvenile literature.