Heart of a samurai

Margi Preus First published 2010

About this book

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.

Subjects

  • 1940
  • 1941
  • fiction
  • japanese
  • juvenile fiction
  • nazi germany
  • novel
  • relations
  • spies
  • war