Coerr, Eleanor <br/><br/>
Sadako and the thousand paper cranes  

 - New York :  Scholastic,   2000 
 - 79 p. :   ill.  
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0439168244 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cranes--Juvenile fiction