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| Based on a true story, Sadako Sasaki faces the battle of her life when she is told that she has the "atom bomb disease," leukemia, so she turns to her native beliefs by making a thousand paper cranes so that the gods will grant her one wish to be well again. |
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Key Information
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| Authors: |
Eleanor Coerr · Ronald Himler |
| Fiction Subgenre: |
Death & Dying |
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Professional Reviews
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Children's Book Review Service: "['Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes'] makes its own eloquent plea for world peace and deals simply but effectively with the concept of death for younger children." |
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Book Editions
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- Hardcover - Prebinding
- October 01, 1999
- Bt Bound
- 7.5"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 0.5"(d), 0.3 lbs.
- 9780613230292
, - Hardcover
- Anniversary
- 80
- February 01, 2002
- Putnam Pub Group
- 9.5"(h) x 6.5"(w) x 0.5"(d), 0.58 lbs.
- 9780399237997
, - Paperback
- Reissue
- 79
- December 01, 1999
- Puffin
- 8"(h) x 5"(w) x 0.25"(d), 0.2 lbs.
- 9780698118027
, - Paperback
- 80
- April 01, 2004
- Puffin
- 7"(h) x 5"(w) x 0.25"(d), 0.15 lbs.
- 9780142401132
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