She decides to wake up her elder brother, Masahiro. Sadako goes back inside the house where her younger sister and two brothers are asleep. She deems the fair weather a sign of good luck. Eleven-year-old Sadako runs out into the street and surveys the sky, noting that it is very sunny and there are no clouds. The novel begins on the morning of August 6, 1954, nine years after the bombing took place. The book has been translated into many languages and published in many places, to be used for peace education programs in primary schools. Sadako was only two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped near her home by Misasa Bridge in Hiroshima, Japan. The story deals with the effects of the bomb on Sadako and her family. Set in Japan after World War II, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (1977), a children’s historical novel by Canadian-American author Eleanor Coerr, tells the story of Sadako Sasaki who lived in Hiroshima at the time when the United States dropped the atomic bomb.
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