Sadako and the thousand paper cranes by Eleanor Coerr
Subtitle: a multicultural novel study
By: written by Melanie Komar ; illustrated by Ric Ward.
Contributors: Coerr, Eleanor.; Ward, Ric.; S & S Learning Materials.
Series: Learning can be fun -- SSN1-103
Publisher: S & S Learning Materials
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Whitby, ON
Language: eng
Number of pages: 62
Subjects: Sasaki, Sadako, -- 1943-1955 -- Juvenile literature.; Coerr, Eleanor.; Creative activities and seat work.; Leukemia in children -- Juvenile literature.; Atomic bomb -- Physiological effect -- Juvenile literature.; Death -- Juvenile literature.; Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Juvenile literature.
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.
Notes: Grades three to four.

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