Book Review / Sadako and The Thousand Paper Cranes

Sadako and The Thousand Paper Cranes
By Eleanor Coerr

This book is a non fiction book based on a
real life girl who lived in Japan that had actually
got the disease, leukemia.

The genre for this book is a sad book because
Sadako had got a disease and had died from it.

This story took place in Japan.
The setting kept changing to different settings like
when Sadako was at the hospital because of her disease
and it was also set at her school and even when she went
home to her house for a couple of days.

Sadako was in Hiroshima when The United States Air Force
had dropped an atom bomb on that city to try end World War II.

10 years later she died from the radiation from the bomb that
made her get a blood disease. Another name for it is the atom bomb disease.

The main characters in this book was Sadako, Kenji and Chuziko.

Sadako was the girl that had caught the atom bomb disease.

Sadako loved to run she was the top of her running class.

Kenji was a boy that Sadako had met when she first came to the hospital.
Kenji was born with the disease because his mum had it when she gave
birth to him. Chuziko was Sadako’s first visitor that had told her if she made 1000 paper cranes the gods will grant her wish and Sadako will be healthy again.

My opinion on this book is that this is a good book because it has
good language in it. There are some parts in the book where
you wonder what happens next.

My recommendation is that children from 9-13 years old could read this
book
because it has some sad parts in it.