Samurai shortstop

Title
Samurai shortstop

Personal Author EPSB
Alan, Gratz

Summary
While obtaining a Western education at a prestigious Japanese boarding school in 1890, sixteen-year-old Toyo also receives traditional samurai training which has profound effects on both his baseball game and his relationship with his father.

Year Published
2006

Physical Description
280 p. ; 22 cm.

Program Information
Gr. 8+

Subject
Samurai -- Fiction.
 
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
 
Boarding schools -- Fiction.
 
Schools -- Fiction.
 
Baseball stories.
 
Father-son relationship -- Fiction.
 
Private schools -- Fiction.
 
School stories.
 
Baseball -- Fiction.

Geographic Term
Japan -- History -- Meiji period, 1868-1912 -- Fiction.

Summary
While obtaining a Western education at a prestigious Japanese boarding school in 1890, sixteen-year-old Toyo also receives traditional samurai training which has profound effects on both his baseball game and his relationship with his father.

ISBN
9780803730755
 
9780142410998

Publisher
New York : Dial Books, c2006.


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
Elizabeth FinchF GRABook31459000019936Fiction