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Sadako

Title
Sadako / Eleanor Coerr ; illustrated by Ed Young.
Author
Coerr, Eleanor
Publication
  • New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1993]
  • ©1993

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  • Young, Ed
  • G.P. Putnam's Sons, publisher
Description
48 unnumbered pages : color illustrations; 24 x 29 cm
Summary
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.
Uniform Title
Sadako and the thousand paper cranes.
Subject
  • Sasaki, Sadako, 1943-1955 > Juvenile literature
  • Sasaki, Sadako, 1943-1955
  • 1945
  • Leukemia in children > Juvenile literature
  • Atomic bomb > Physiological effect > Juvenile literature
  • Leukemia
  • Atomic bomb > Physiological effect
  • Death
  • Leukemia in children
  • Hiroshima-shi (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1945
  • Japan > Hiroshima-shi
Genre/Form
  • Literature.
  • History.
  • Juvenile works.
  • Picture books.
Note
  • Revised edition of: Sadako and the thousand paper cranes. c1977.
  • "Inspired by Sadako and the thousand paper cranes"--Title page verso.
  • Ed Young (born November 28, 1931), né Ed (Tse-chun) Young, is a Chinese-born American illustrator and writer of children's picture books. He won one Caldecott Medal for the year's best American picture book and for his lifetime contribution as a children's illustrator he was twice the U.S. nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
Audience (note)
  • Elementary Grade.
  • 660
Call Number
J B SASAKI C
ISBN
  • 0399217711
  • 9780399217715
LCCN
92041483
OCLC
27267469
Author
Coerr, Eleanor, author.
Title
Sadako / Eleanor Coerr ; illustrated by Ed Young.
Publisher
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1993]
Copyright Date
©1993
Edition
First Impression.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Audience
Elementary Grade.
660 Lexile.
Study Program
Accelerated Reader 3.8.
Reading Counts! 4.6.
Study Program
Reading Counts RC: 4.6 L500: 2.
Accelerated Reader Grades 5-8 3.8 0.5 SD Quiz 9648 English non-fiction, vocabulary quiz available.
Chronological Term
1945
Place of Publication
United States New York (State) New York.
Added Author
Young, Ed, illustrator.
Coerr, Eleanor. Sadako and the thousand paper cranes.
G.P. Putnam's Sons, publisher.
Added Title
Sadako and the thousand paper cranes.
Other Form:
Online version: Coerr, Eleanor. Sadako. New York : Putnam, ©1993 (OCoLC)624384243
Research Call Number
J B SASAKI C
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