Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

By Eleanor Coerr

21 ratings 35 reviews 35 followers
Interest LevelReading LevelReading A-ZATOSWord Count
Grades 3 - 6Grades 2 - 5R4.15677
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.
Publisher: Puffin Books
Published on 6/18/2009
Binding: Paperback

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It is a good book and it is also sad it is a nice book very nice but there is sum sad stuff and they are cool and she is a good girl and she is 11 years old so she never wakes up at the end so she upset because her friend died and she is not alive no more so she still miss her friend so she hast to make a thousand is amazing and she is very cool book

I loved this book because I like books that make me feel amazing. I also like books that make me feel good. I also like books that make me feel great . I think that you should read this book!

I didn't like Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes because it was a sad story. I didn't like the part when she had a kind of illness and when she died. But the great part was when she wanted to go to the race. I would recommend this book, I would because then people can feel how sad it is.

Soo sad. My reading group at school read it all together. We loved it and we took the challenge for making a thousand paper cranes. We were about to send it to Hiroshima peace park, but ended up not. :-(

This book is so sad! I had to read this book for school and i thought it was so sad when i finished it. This book is based on a true story so whenever you read this make sure to have tissues. This book is about a girl named Sadako, she gets leukimia and tries her best to keep fighting hard. When her family and friends come to visit her, one of her friends thinks of an idea to make a thousand paper cranes because that brings good luck. So Sadako and her start making paper cranes.... I recommend this book for people who want to read a sad book.

I hate the ending! It's just so sad! She doesn't deserve to die! I can't believe the aouthor had to end the story with like, "She closed her eyes and never woke up again," something like that.

i love this book. but i almost cried in the end

THIS BOOKS IS FULL WITH ACTION. IT STARTS WITH A BOMB HITING SADAKO'S HOUSE. SADAKO BREATS IN THE SMOKE AND GETS SICK. SHE ALWAYS FELLT WEARD ALL THE TIME. SHE THEN PASES AWAY.

thank you, sir or ma'am, for ruining the book for all of us... Lol, JK :D

A very powerful and moving book that wil make you think about the world that is out there and what other people go through but still make there life worthwhile. A fantastic book and one of my most favorite!

I loved this book. It's a true story, it's all about a little girl battling a sickness that she got when she was just a baby. Now it is effecting her as she gets older.

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