num_pages: 80
description: 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.
language: English
title: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
titlecomplete: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
genres: Classics, Historical, Childrens, Japan, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Read For School, School, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 26322
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: Puffin Books