Writing style
Descriptive · Direct · Spare
Apple BooksSadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Historical fiction
- First published
- 1977
- Print length
- 79 pagesScholastic, 2000
Description
Sadako Sasaki is a lively Hiroshima-born schoolgirl and gifted runner whose recurring dizziness interrupts her ordinary ambitions. Doctors diagnose leukemia associated with radiation from the atomic bombing, forcing Sadako into a hospital and confronting her family with an illness rooted in wartime destruction. Remembering a Japanese legend that promises healing to anyone who folds a thousand paper cranes, she begins transforming small pieces of paper into symbols of hope. Her painstaking project gives shape to courage when recovery lies beyond her control. Based on Sadako’s experience, the children’s historical novel approaches the aftermath of Hiroshima through one young person’s daily life rather than through military history, connecting athletic energy, family love, fear, and perseverance with the enduring human cost of nuclear war.
Reading profile
About this profile
Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).
- Writing
- How much attention the sentences and language require.
- Ideas
- How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
- Structure
- How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
- Background knowledge
- Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
- Emotional intensity
- Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.
Pace
Brisk
Tone
Earnest · Hopeful · Melancholic · Warm
Structure
Linear
Focus
Character · Relationships
Emotional intensity
5 / 5
Reading complexity
1–5 · higher means more demanding- Writing
- 1 / 5
- Ideas
- 2 / 5
- Structure
- 1 / 5
- Background knowledge
- 1 / 5
Themes
Book details
For the print edition listed above.
- Publisher
- Scholastic
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780439168243
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