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