Heart of a samurai : based on the true story of Nakahama Manjiro
(2010)
By:
Preus, Margi
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
Y/FICTION/PREUS,M
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Amulet Books, [2010]
©2010
©2010
DESCRIPTION
301 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780810989818 (alk. paper), 0810989816 (alk. paper)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Winner of the 2011 Newbery Honor Book Award
In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro, who dreams of becoming a samurai, learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States
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