Born in Hiroshima in 1943, Sadako was the star of her school's running team, until the dizzy spells started and she was forced to face the hardest race of her life—the race against time. 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.Born in Hiroshima in 1943, Sadako was the star of her school's running team, until the dizzy spells started and she was forced to face the hardest race of her life—the race against time. 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.
This book is a really touching story. It talks about how Sadako got lekeumia, and there is a legend in Japan that if you fold a thousand paper cranes the gods will grant you a wish and make you healthy again. One day, she folded a paper crane and slept, but she never woke up again. There's a statue in heroshima park which is Sadako's statue. Sadako didn't finish the a thousand crane so her classmates folded three hundred and fifty six more and buried it with her.This book is a really touching story. It talks about how Sadako got lekeumia, and there is a legend in Japan that if you fold a thousand paper cranes the gods will grant you a wish and make you healthy again. One day, she folded a paper crane and slept, but she never woke up again. There's a statue in heroshima park which is Sadako's statue. Sadako didn't finish the a thousand crane so her classmates folded three hundred and fifty six more and buried it with her.