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.
language: English
title: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
titlecomplete: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
genres: Japan, Fiction, Childrens, Middle Grade, Read For School, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, School, Classics, Historical
ratings_count: 26328
places: Japan, Hiroshima
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: West Australian Young Readers' Book Award (WAYRBA)
category: Younger Readers, awardedAt: 284025600000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: کتاب برگزیده سال وزارت ارشاد اسلامی ایران
category: مقطع سنی نوجوانان
publisher: Demco Media