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Heart of a Samurai

Overview

2011 Newbery Honor Title.

In 1841, a Japanese fishing vessel sinks. Its crew is forced to swim to a small, unknown island, where they are rescued by a passing American ship. Japan's borders remain closed to all Western nations, so the crew sets off to America, learning English on the way.

Manjiro, a fourteen-year-old boy, is curious and eager to learn everything he can about this new culture. Eventually the captain adopts Manjiro and takes him to his home in New England. The boy lives for some time in New England, and then heads to San Francisco to pan for gold. After many years, he makes it back to Japan, only to be imprisoned as an outsider. With his hard-won knowledge of the West, Manjiro is in a unique position to persuade the shogun to ease open the boundaries around Japan; he may even achieve his unlikely dream of becoming a samurai. |||This book is sold in the US by Sony Electronics Inc.

Awards

  • American Library Association Notable Books for Children
  • Newbery Medal
  • Publishers Weekly Best Children's Books

Author Information

Margi Preus

Margi Preus has written many popular plays and picture books for children. She teaches a children's literature course at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota, where she writes for Colder by the Lake Comedy Theater and also watches for whales on Lake Superior.

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Product Details

  • Published by

    Abrams Books

  • Publish Date

    August 01, 2010 

  • Print ISBN

    0810989816

  • eBook ISBN

    9781613120088

  • Imprint

    Abrams Books

  • Filesize

    3.21 MB

  • Number of Print Pages*

    320

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