Eleanor Coerr

Twelve-year-old Sadako Sasaki was the lively star of her school's running team when the dizzy spells started. Soon gravely ill with leukaemia, an after-effect of the atom bomb that fell on her city when she was two years old, Sadako approached her illness as she did her running—with irrepressible spirit. Recalling a Japanese legend, Sadako set to work folding paper...