Sadako and the thousand paper cranes /

Coerr, Eleanor.

Sadako and the thousand paper cranes / by Eleanor Coerr ; paintings by Ronald Himler. - New York : Putnam, c1977. - 80 p. : ill. ;

Includes a section on "How to fold a paper crane."

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.

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.

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