Coerr, Eleanor

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes/ By Coerr, Eleanor.;illustrations by Himler, Ronald; - New york: Paw Prints, 2008. - 63 pages: illustrastion; 19 cm.

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.

--Juvenile literature.-- Physiological effect --Juvenile literature.--Bombardment, 1945 --History

823 / COE 2008