Title: Hunt for the bamboo rat
Description: Zenji Watanabe, seventeen, is sent from Hawaii to the Philippines to spy on the Japanese during World War II and, after he is captured and tortured, must find a way to survive months of being lost in the jungle behind enemy lines.

Zenji is sent from Hawaii to the Philippines to spy on the Japanese during World War II. After he is captured and tortured, he must find a way to survive months of being lost in the jungle behind enemy lines. The plot contains graphic war violence.
Subjects: Prisoners of war, World War, 1939-1945, Juvenile fiction, Spies, Japanese Americans, Fiction, Survival, History, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, JUVENILE FICTION, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, General, Japanese Occupation of Philippines (1942-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01353448, JUVENILE FICTION / General, Spy stories, Children's fiction, Spies, fiction, Survival, fiction, Japanese americans, fiction, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Philippines, fiction
Places: Philippines
Time periods: Japanese occupation, 1942-1945