Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
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4.9 • 14 Ratings
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- $2.99
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- $2.99
Publisher 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.
Customer Reviews
Reading it
I’ve already started reading it at school!So far it is great.I predict when I reach more and more pages the story will be awesome.So far there is a atom bomb and I am up to chapter 3.In future reading I predict I will be great at it.I need to work on sentences that are continuing to the next page because I keep stopping there .But I am getting there.
An awesome read!
This book made me cry! I remember reading this as a kid, but I read this little book once again and I feel both happy and sorry for these people. Happy that the Japanese community is recovering from this horrific disaster of 1942, and sad that so many people had to die needlessly. I highly recommend this book!
Really good
Really good