Coerr, Eleanor

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.

690 Lexile M Raz-Plus

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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.

PE1121 / .C568 1999