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Heart of a samurai : based on the true story of Nakahama Manjiro / by Margi Preus. |
| Authors: | Preus, Margi. |
| Call number: | jFIC PRE |
| Publisher: | New York : Amulet Books, c2010. |
| Publication date: | c2010. |
| Subject: |
Japanese -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.
Nakahama, Manjirō, 1827-1898 -- Juvenile fiction. Japan -- Relations -- United States -- Juvenile fiction. United States -- Relations -- Japan -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Title: | Heart of a samurai : based on the true story of Nakahama Manjiro / by Margi Preus. |
| Physical description: | 301 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Notes: | Summer Reading Program Bonus Books & Materials 2012. |
| Summary note: | 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. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780810989818 (alk. paper) : 0810989816 (alk. paper) : 9781419702006 |
| LCCN: | 2009051634 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1261202 |
| Bib No.: | 1261202 |