Hunt for the bamboo rat

Title
Hunt for the bamboo rat

Personal Author EPSB
Graham. Salisbury

Summary
Zenji Watanabe, seventeen, is sent from Hawaii to the Philippines to spy on the Japanese during World War II and, after he is captured and tortured, must find a way to survive months of being lost in the jungle behind enemy lines.

Year Published
2014

Series
Prisoners of the empire books

Physical Description
323 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.

Awards
2015 Fall Litpicks ASLC review Alberta School Library Council.

Subject
Spies -- Fiction.
 
Prisoners of war -- Fiction.
 
Survival -- Fiction.
 
Japanese Americans -- Fiction.
 
World War, 1939-1945 -- Philippines -- Fiction.

Geographic Term
Philippines -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1942-1945 -- Fiction.

Summary
Zenji Watanabe, seventeen, is sent from Hawaii to the Philippines to spy on the Japanese during World War II and, after he is captured and tortured, must find a way to survive months of being lost in the jungle behind enemy lines.

ISBN
9780375842665
 
9780375940705

Publisher
New York : Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, [2014]


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
Jasper PlaceF SALBook30071000622477Fiction