Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

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Eleanor Coerr

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Paper Cranes

When Sadako enters the Red Cross Hospital with a diagnosis of leukemia—a result of exposure to lingering radiation from the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima at the end of World War Two—she is devastated and…

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