Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

by Eleanor Coerr Author

A true story of Sadako, who faces the hardest race of her life in the aftermath of the atomic bomb. Gravely ill with leukemia, an after-effect of the atomic bomb that fell on her city when she was just an infant, Sakado recalls a Japanese legend and sets to work folding paper cranes. The legend holds that if a person folds one thousand paper cranes, the gods will grant her wish.