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For the first time, middle readers can learn the complete story of the courageous girl whose life, which ended through the effects of war, inspired a worldwide call for peace. In this book, author Sue DiCicco and Sadako's older brother Masahiro tell her complete story in English for the first time-how Sadako's courage throughout her illness inspired family and friends, and how she became a symbol of all people, especially children, who suffer from the impact of war. Her life and her death carry a message: we must have a wholehearted desire for peace and be willing to work together to achieve it. Sadako Sasaki was two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on her city of Hiroshima at the end of World War II. Ten years later, just as life was starting to feel almost normal again, this athletic and enthusiastic girl was fighting a war of a different kind. One of many children affected by the bomb, she had contracted leukemia. Patient and determined, Sadako set herself the task of folding 1000 paper cranes in the hope that her wish to be made well again would be granted. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Sasaki, Sadako, 1943-1955 -- Juvenile literature.
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Atomic bomb -- Physiological effect -- Juvenile literature.
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Leukemia in children -- Patients -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Nuclear warfare -- Social aspects -- Juvenile literature.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Juvenile literature.
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Electronic books.
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Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Juvenile literature.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781462921690 (electronic bk.) |
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1462921698 (electronic bk.) |
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MWT13258309 |
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