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Author Blumberg, Rhoda.

Title Shipwrecked! : the true adventures of a Japanese boy / Rhoda Blumberg.

Publication Info. New York : HarperCollins, [2001]
©2001

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Children's Department  J 952 BLUMBERG    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department  J952 BLU    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Children's Department  J952 BLU    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Children's Department  J 952.025 BLU    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Children's Department  J 952 BLU    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 952 NAKAHAMA    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Juvenile Biography  JB NAKAHAMA    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Children's Biography  J B-NAKAHAMA BLU    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Children's Department  J952 BLUMBERG    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Children's Department  J B NAKAHAMA    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 80 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
Contents Shipwrecked -- Marooned -- Isolated empire -- Rescued -- Whaling ship -- Honolulu -- Japanese New Englander -- Crazed Captain -- Digging for gold -- Arrested -- Imprisoned -- Home at last -- Honored Samurai -- Author's note -- About the illustrations -- About the author.
Summary In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.4 2.0 46291.
Subject Nakahama, Manjirō, 1827-1898 -- Juvenile literature.
Nakahama, Manjirō, 1827-1898.
Japan -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.
Japan -- Relations -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
United States -- Relations -- Japan -- Juvenile literature.
Japan -- History -- 19th century.
Japan -- Relations -- United States.
United States -- Relations -- Japan.
ISBN 0688174841
9780688174842
0060293659 library binding
9780060293659 library binding
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