Status
Available
Call number
DDC/MDS
| JB COE |
Publication
New York : Putnam, c1977.
Original publication date
1977
Description
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.
Subjects
Language
Physical description
64 p.; 24 cm
Awards
Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee — 1981)
Sequoyah Book Award (Nominee — Children's — 1980)
Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award (Nominee — 1980)
William Allen White Children's Book Award (Nominee — 1979-1980)
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (Nominee)
Mark Twain Readers Award (Nominee)
WAYRBA: Western Australia Young Readers Book Award (Winner — Younger Readers — 1981)
Reading Olympics (Elementary — 2024)