num_pages: 384
description: Orphaned at thirteen, Hikotaro makes his way from Japan to San Francisco, where he soon dreams of returning home, but after being denied passage on Commodore Perry's ship, he returns to the U.S., and then back to his own troubled country. 25,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Storm Rider
titlecomplete: Storm Rider
genres: Fiction, Japanese Literature, Japan, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 58
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt