| Description |
xiv, 234 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : map ; 22 cm |
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age Children |
| Summary |
In turbulent sixteenth-century Japan, orphaned Taro is taken in by a general serving the great warlord Takeda Shingen and grows up to become a samurai fighting for the enemies of his dead family. |
| Audience |
960L Lexile. |
| Contents |
In Blood We Are All Born -- Journey to Kofuchu -- "Dog" Taro -- Death of Togan -- Stable-boy Taro -- A Night at Toko-ji Temple -- Zazen -- On the Road -- Iida Castle -- Yoshitoki -- In the House of a Ghost -- A Name, A Name! -- Rumors of War -- "Master of Rice" -- Thief -- Ronin Bandit -- I Gain a Helmet -- Strategy of War -- Ninja -- A Trap Is Laid -- A Sortie of Death -- Iwamura Is Ours -- In Search of Supplies -- Aki-hime -- Lord Takeda Shingen -- A Poem for Aki-hime -- Lord Zakoji's Proposal -- Hunting Party -- Lord Zakoji Becomes a Priest -- Siege of Iwamura Castle -- I Leave Iwamura Castle -- Takeda Katsuyori -- Ninja Again -- End of the Tale. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo |
| Subject |
Japan -- History -- Period of civil wars, 1480-1603 -- Juvenile fiction.
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Samurai -- Juvenile fiction.
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Samurai. |
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Japan. |
| Genre/Form |
Children's stories.
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Historical fiction.
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Fiction.
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History.
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Juvenile works.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Haugaard, Erik Christian. Samurai's tale. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1984 (OCoLC)560563557 |
| ISBN |
0395345596 |
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9780395345597 |
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0395549701 (PA) |
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9780395549704 (PA) |
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9780618615124 (paperback) |
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0618615121 (paperback) |
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1417687495 (Topeka) |
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9781417687497 (Topeka) |
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