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Tiffany Young. Mrs. Laurencot. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. By Eleanor Coerr.   __Summary. __

 In this book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes it's about a girl name Sadako who was diagnosed with Leukemia because am atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in Japan when she was two. Sadako's grandmother died because of the Atom bomb, so then Peace Day was made, Sadako thought of it as a carnival, but by the end of the day, everyone even the children knew the meaning of what Peace Day was for. Sadako loved to run, her dream was to be racing on the middle school team, but when she started to get dizzy she didn't think anything bad could possibility happen, so she decided to keep it a secret from everyone including her best friend Chizuko. Then one day she was running to school everything spun in front of her face and she collapsed to the ground. Sadako was sent to the hospital and soon her whole family was there with her. Her secret was discovered when everyone also that Sadako had the "atom bomb disease," or known as Leukemia. The next day Sadako was in the hospital Chizuko came to visit her, she told her by making a thousand paper cranes, the gods will grant her a wish, her brother even promised to hang them all up, and Sadako's hope of getting better were also heeling. One day when the nurse took Sadako out to the porch she met Kenji, he was a nine year old boy who was born with Leukemia because her mother had it when she gave birth. Sadako and Kenji became really close, but when he went back inside Sadako made a paper crane and sent it to Kenji for good luck. Then the next day, Kenji had passed away and Sadako just looked at wall, and cried. But Nurse Yuasunaga was there to comfort her and said to continue making the paper cranes, she was up to 464. Then at the end of July on a sunny and warm day Sadako was feeling better and happier and was allowed to visit her family at home finally just in time for the big holiday O Bon when the spirits of the dead comes back to visit their loved ones, it was the happiest week she have had in a long time, but by the end of the week she was weak and pale again. The day she had finally owned and worn a silk kimono, played games and laughed, she was happy and so was her family, that night before she went to bed she made her 644th crane, also her last one, when she tried to make more, she couldn't she had grown too weak, but when she woke up one day with her family by her side, Sadako touched her golden crane, looked at her flock of cranes, and went.

TYoung. Page 39. // "Out of the color paper, cranes come fly into our house." // This quote from book, "Out of the color paper, cranes come fly into our house," was important to me because it's means Mrs. Sasaki wanted Sadako better, wanted her back home safe and healthy. To Mrs. Sasaki, each crane Sadako made, the better she was getting, so by saying that old fashion poem Mrs. Sasaki was praying for Sadako to be getting better soon. Even though Sakado died at the age of 12, she lived longer than Kenji, and she has learned a lot. She has learned to be grateful for a still being alive for one thing, grateful she had such a wonderful family, grateful that she had such a great best friend to keep her hopes up by making paper cranes, and most of all, grateful to have been able to fly like the wind.