Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes cover

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

Author: Coerr, Eleanor

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 4.1
Points 1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 5677
Points per Word 0.000176
Page Count 80
Points per Page 0.0125

Description

Hospitalised 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.