Sadako

Title

Sadako

Subject

Leukemia in children -- Juvenile literature. Sasaki, Sadako, -- 1943-1955 -- Juvenile literature. Atomic bomb -- Physiological effect -- Juvenile literature. Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945. Leukemia. Sasaki, Sadako, -- 1943-1955. Atomic bomb -- Physiological effect. Death.

Description

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.

Creator

Coerr, Eleanor

Publisher

Penguin Books

Date

1993

Type

RJ416 .L4 C63

Identifier

2003.500.2814

Collection