Samurai of Gold Hill
By: by Yoshiko Uchida ; illustrated by Ati Forberg.
Contributors: Forberg, Ati, ill.
Publisher: Heyday Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Subjects: Japanese Americans -- Fiction; Immigrants -- Fiction; Farm life -- California -- Gold Hill -- Fiction; Prejudices -- Fiction; Gold Hill (El Dorado County, Calif.) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction; Gold Hill (El Dorado County, Calif.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction; Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
Description: Twelve-year-old Koichi wants to be a samurai like his father but when their clan is defeated in battle, they move to America in 1869 to become farmers. Based on the real-life Wakamatsu colony, founded by exiles from Japan, near Sacramento, California.