Coerr, Eleanor.

Sadako and the thousand paper cranes / Sadako and the 1000 paper cranes. by Eleanor Coerr ; paintings by Ronald Himler. - New York : Puffin Books, 2004, c1977. - 80 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

Good luck signs -- Peace Day -- Sadako's secret -- A secret no longer -- The Golden Crane -- Kenji -- Hundreds of wishes -- Last days -- Racing with the wind.

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.

ISBN: 9780847920037

Subjects--Personal Names:
Sasaki, Sadako, 1943-1955 --Fiction.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Leukemia--Fiction.