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Preus, Margi

Heart of a Samurai

306 pp. | Abrams/Amulet | August, 2010 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8109-8981-8 $15.95
(2) 4-6 Shipwrecked in 1842, fourteen-year-old Manjiro and his fellow fishermen are rescued by a whaler. Manjiro stays on the ship, learning English and later going with the captain to his home in Massachusetts. The facts of the teen's life are inherently dramatic, but Preus keeps her hero (a real person) human-sized and empathetic. The book is augmented with actual drawings by Manjiro.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2010

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