Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Puffin Modern Classics) Paperback - 2004 - 1st Edition
by Coerr, Eleanor
- Used
Based on a true story, young Sadako faces the battle of her life when she is diagnosed with "atomic bomb disease" (leukemia). She turns to her native Japanese beliefs and makes one thousand paper cranes so the gods will grant her wish to be well.
Description
Details
- Title Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Puffin Modern Classics)
- Author Coerr, Eleanor
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 80
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Young Readers Group, New York, New York
- Date 2004-04-12
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 3929450-6
- ISBN 9780142401132 / 0142401137
- Weight 0.17 lbs (0.08 kg)
- Dimensions 7.06 x 5.18 x 0.22 in (17.93 x 13.16 x 0.56 cm)
- Ages 08 to 12 years
- Grade levels 3 - 7
- Reading level 690
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Chronological Period: 1950's
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
- Topical: Death/Dying
- Library of Congress subjects Leukemia in children, Hiroshima-shi (Japan) - History -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 76009872
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
Born in Hiroshima in 1943, Sadako was the star of her school's running team, until the dizzy spells started and she was forced to face the hardest race of her life-the race against time.
