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Violence
Barely any
Hiroshima is the novel's historical context; Sadako's illness and eventual death are handled with age-appropriate care
Language
None
No profanity
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
The emotional weight of a child facing death with grace — and the historical shadow of Hiroshima — creates the novel's moving psychological register
What this book is about
Eleanor Coerr's short biographical novel tells the story of Sadako Sasaki, who was two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and who developed leukemia at age twelve. The novel follows Sadako's brave last months as she folds paper cranes, believing the Japanese legend that a thousand cranes will grant a wish. A significant children's book that has introduced generations of readers to the human cost of nuclear war.
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