Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr

[Kathy Maxwell]

During Chizuko’s ninth year, she has trouble running without dizziness.  When she collapses at school, her parents take her to the hospital where tests reveal leukemia. Chizuko was alive during the time of Hiroshima and was, unknowingly, exposed to radiation.  

 

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