Title:
Sadako and the thousand paper cranes
Author:
Coerr, Eleanor.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Putnam, [1977]
©1977
Physical Description:
80 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
General Note:
Includes a section on "How to fold a paper crane."
Language:
English
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.
Reading Level:
630 Lexile.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.1 1.0 436.
Reading Counts RC 3-5 5.2 3 Quiz: 09937 Guided reading level: R.
Added Author:
ISBN:
9780399237997
Format :
Book
