The book everyone needs to read.

If I could make a book read by everyone on earth, it would be Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. The story is about a young girl who went through the atomic bombings and survived. She finds out years later that because of the radiation she has cancer. Sadako then follows a tradition that if one fold a thousand paper cranes, they are granted a wish. Sadako then folds all of them, and asks to be cured. She is not gifted that wish. She spends the remainder of the book getting progressively worse, yet still folding cranes. She does eventually die of the cancer before the age of twenty. This story is about having hope even in the darkest of times, and also about never giving up in the face of failure. If a teenage girl can have hope about a terminal disease, then anyone can have hope. If a dieing girl does not give up even after her thousand crane wish fails, then everyone should not give up. Those are both lessons everyone in the world should know. The world would benifit if people did not give up, or lose hope. It would be a better place over all.