Samurai shortstop
By: Alan Gratz.
Publisher: Dial Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Samurai -- Juvenile fiction; Fathers and sons -- Juvenile fiction; Baseball -- Juvenile fiction; Boarding schools -- Juvenile fiction; Schools -- Juvenile fiction; Japan -- History -- Meiji period, 1868-1912 -- Juvenile fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction
Description: 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.
Notes: 790  Lexile.

Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.9 9.0 106131.

A Junior Library Guild selection.