I'm Maddie. I'm a 13 year old girl and I live in Illinois, USA. This story is so good.
Here's my review of the book
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
by Eleanor Coerr.
What this book is about:
Sadako is an athletic Japanese girl living in Hiroshima. She is her school's star runner. It's been her dream her entire life to get onto the junior high running team and she finally gets her chance and makes it on the team!
But then trouble strikes. Sadako begins experiencing awful dizzy spells and one day she collapses on the playground while running. She is sent to the hospital where she and her family learn the awful truth of the dizzy spells; Sadako has leukemia.
Many Japanese people have gotten leukemia from the atomic bomb that fell on Hiroshima 10 years before Sadako fell ill. Most of those people never recover and instead die from the terrible disease.
The future seems grave for Sadako. But she is determined to get well and to run on the junior high team.
One day, her friend comes and shows her how to fold a paper crane using origami. Sadako is confused. The friend explains that, according to legend, if a sick person folds 1000 of those cranes, the gods will make her healthy again.
So Sadako sets out to fold 1000 cranes. Her family and friends give her all the spare paper they can get and she folds crane after crane after crane after crane.
While in the hospital, she meets a little boy who also has leukemia. The two become friends, talking for hours. But then the boy dies and Sadako begins fearing for her own life. She is getting weaker all the time and is having trouble folding cranes. And she has only made 644 of her 1000 cranes. But Sadako is now too weak to do anything.
You can guess how the story ends; Sadako never gets well again.
Based on a true story, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes is a story that will touch your heart.
What I think about this book:
I love it. It makes me cry every time I read it.
Where I got this book from:
It was a school reader.
Other books by this author that I like are:
I don't know of any others.
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