Title: The boy and the Samurai
First published: 1991
Description: Having grown up as an orphan of the streets while sixteenth-century Japan is being ravaged by civil war, Saru seeks to help a samurai rescue his wife from imprisonment by a warlord so they can all flee to a more peaceful life.
Subjects: History, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Boys, fiction, Samurai, fiction, Japan, fiction
Places: Japan
Time periods: Period of civil wars, 1480-1603