Sadako Sasaki, a young girl who dreams about running. According to her mother, "Sadako was born to run even before she could walk." Her personality was so lively that if Sadako ever get sad, it would be unusual for her to sad or serious. Everything was normal; she often hung out with her best friend, Chizuko, often talk with her family members, and some other friends until everything changing for her. She started to feel dizzy more often and her family later discovered that Sadako had contacted an atom bomb disease of what called leukemia (a blood cancer). In Japan, if anyone ever get sick, and if they ever make 1,000 paper cranes, the gods would fulfill their wishes to become healthy again. Sadako herself set on making the 1,000 papers cranes but when she reached the number of 644 paper cranes, she couldn't make even more of paper cranes after that number. Few days later, she died; and her last words were: "It's tasty" and "Thank you, everyone" ~ Sadako Sasaki. This is based on the true story about the courageous girl who had contacted leukemia who dreams about making the relay team on her junior high school team. - Happy Reading!
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
By Eleanor Coerr
| Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grades 3 - 6 | Grades 2 - 5 | R | 4.1 | 5677 |
Book Reviews (37)
Sadako, a young girl born after the atom bomb hit Japan, though the diseases still lay in the town. She was born to be a runner, until she started not feeling right. Her parents did not know until she fainted right before them. Of course, they rushed her too the hospital, and the doctors say she contracted leukemia, a disease from the atom bomb. She immediately starts folding one thousand paper cranes, because in the Japan culture, if you fold one thousand paper cranes the gods will make your wish come true. Can she make in time to fold enough cranes, or will she grow weak and pass? I loved this book so much, and I appreciate the author creating a new window to what actually happened.
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This book was an open window to how War makes others suffer. If it wasn’t for this book, I would have never known...
This realistic fiction book was really good the 10 times i read it. This story helped me realize the problems of the world. It is a story of hope and happiness
This book is about a young girl named sudoko who was born a little bit before the atom bomb exploded and when she was in 4th grade she discovered she had leukemia and her friend told her if she makes 1,000 paper cranes she would be made better.
This is an amazing but really sad book about a girl named Sadako. When she was a baby the atom bomb hit japan. Sadako was born to be a runner. Sooner are later she got dizzy a lot. She didn't tell her parents until she fainted and the found out. Her parents brought her to the hospital and she a the atom bomb disease. One day her friend came to visit her in the hospital and she told Sadako about the 1000 paper cranes and If you make 1000 paper cranes that you will be able to make a wish. My class is making 1000 paper cranes too to make a wish!
I remember reading this with my friends back in the years. The book was a little too short, but was one of the best WWII books I've read. I haven't read it in years, but I will sum it up. Sadako Sasaki. She is a girl who grew up in post-war Japan, after the bombings. She lived a mile away from Ground Zero. She contracts leukemia, and starts folding paper cranes. In Japan, it is said, that if you fold a thousand paper cranes, the gods will listen to you, and heal you. She couldn't, according to her book, only folding around 700 before becoming too weak. I remember the last line of the book, clear as day, "She never woke up." However, according to her family, she folded more than a thousand before dying. Anyway you slice it, she lives on, as there is a statue of Sadako at the Hiroshima Peace Park.
It's my favorite book
best book ever
i like this book because it is abut a girl that got the otomic boom desis. and it is sad to but it is intesting. and that she neded to go to the hospital. and when some days pass in the hospital and then she found her friend there. and they where both in a wheel chair.and the kid all of his famaly died because the otomic boom. but it was only him and here uncle. so that is really sad . and then just one day in the hospital sadako hered that the beds that have wheels on them. sadako hered them and she was worring wat happend and then the doctor came and told the bad news to sadako and she was craing so hard that she went where the window was. and then since then she made 1000 paper crains and so nobody else can go to that same mistake.and sadako was only 11 years old so that really must be hard for her. and just a nother day she was really tired and she went to sleep. and she never woke up but she never got to finish the crains. but someone found them and they wanted to finish them. so scince this day the otmic boom that happend in japan gave the disis to sadako and they made a statue of her so they can remember what she did and with the paper crains they put them araund her neck so people know what she done so they hade to make a statue of her