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Author Haugaard, Erik Christian.

Title The samurai's tale / Erik Christian Haugaard.

Imprint Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1984.

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Location Call No. Status
 Burlington Public Library - Teen  PB YF HAU    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Young Adult  YA HAU    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 234 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : map ; 22 cm
Summary In turbulent sixteenth-century Japan, orphaned Taro is taken in by a general serving the great warlord Takeda Shingen and grows up to become a samurai fighting for the enemies of his dead family.
Contents In Blood We Are All Born -- The Journey to Kofuchu -- The "Dog" Taro -- The Death of Togan -- The Stable-boy Taro -- A Night at Toko-ji Temple -- Zazen -- On the Road -- Iida Castle -- Yoshitoki -- In the House of a Ghost -- A Name, A Name! -- Rumors of War -- "Master of Rice" -- The Thief -- The Ronin Bandit -- I Gain a Helmet -- The Strategy of War -- The Ninja -- A Trap Is Laid -- A Sortie of Death -- Iwamura Is Ours -- In Search of Supplies -- Aki-hime -- Lord Takeda Shingen -- A Poem for Aki-hime -- Lord Zakoji's Proposal -- The Hunting Party -- Lord Zakoji Becomes a Priest -- The Siege of Iwamura Castle -- I Leave Iwamura Castle -- Takeda Katsuyori -- The Ninja Again -- The End of the Tale.
Audience 960L Lexile.
Subject Japan -- History -- Period of civil wars, 1480-1603 -- Juvenile fiction.
Samurai -- Juvenile fiction.
Japan -- History -- Period of civil wars, 1480-1603 -- Fiction.
Samurai -- Fiction.
Samurai. (OCoLC)fst01104697
Japan. (OCoLC)fst01204082
Samurai -- Fiction.
Japan -- History -- Fiction.
Chronological Term 1480-1603
Genre/Form Children's stories.
Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Historical fiction.
Other Form: Online version: Haugaard, Erik Christian. Samurai's tale. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1984 (OCoLC)560563557
ISBN 0395345596
9780395345597
0395549701 (PA)
9780395549704 (PA)
9780618615124 (pbk.)
0618615121 (pbk.)
9781417687497 (Topeka)
1417687495 (Topeka)
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