Sadako and the thousand paper cranes
by:
Eleanor Coerr (author)
Hiroshima-born Sadako is lively and athletic--the star of her school's running team. And then the dizzy spells start. Soon gravely ill with leukemia, the "atom bomb disease," Sadako faces her future with spirit and bravery. Recalling a Japanese legend, Sadako sets to work folding paper cranes....
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Hiroshima-born Sadako is lively and athletic--the star of her school's running team. And then the dizzy spells start. Soon gravely ill with leukemia, the "atom bomb disease," Sadako faces her future with spirit and bravery. Recalling a Japanese legend, Sadako sets to work folding paper cranes. For the legend holds that if a sick person folds one thousand cranes, the gods will grant her wish and make her healthy again. Based on a true story, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes celebrates the extraordinary courage that made one young woman a heroine in Japan.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
0698118022
Publish date: December 1st 1999
Publisher: Puffin
Pages no: 80
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Cultural,
Read For School,
Juvenile,
Historical Fiction,
Japan,
Fiction,
Historical
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes is a heartbreaking story about a young girl who attempts to fulfill the legend of folding one thousand paper cranes to make her well again. It is a story of hope and perseverance. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes received a score of 630L on the Lexile scale m...
Blown away by this amazing story
Rather too loosely based on the true story to be worth reading.
An atom bomb gives little Sadako cancer. She (and an ever-expanding group of well-wishers) starts folding paper cranes in the hope of wishing herself well.It doesn't work. She dies. Every time a child reads this, they cry for days.
Read this book in class in grade 4, in a group with the school librarian since my classroom teacher thought it was too sad to read it with us.
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