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Lured into a trap…\nall the gaijin<\/i> must die…
\nbut the youngest crewmember escapes – into a greater peril.<\/p>\n
Lured into a trap…
\nall the gaijin<\/i> must die…
\nbut the youngest crewmember escapes – into a greater peril.<\/p>\n
Jack knows that sea voyaging is dangerous, but his father is a skillful English pilot, with his handwritten navigational notes<\/a>. But as they spot the shoreline of “the Japans” in 1611, their ship is attacked and sunk by ninja pirates, intent on keeping foreigners out of their country<\/a>.<\/p>\n Only being found by an honorable samurai warrior<\/a> saves Jack from immediate death. Only Jack’s determination to survive and someday return to England keeps him going through the mental challenges of fitting into Japanese society and the physical challenges of samurai school. Can blue-eyed Jack truly become an English samurai warrior<\/a> in feudal Japan?<\/p>\n And DragonEye the one-eyed ninja<\/a> assassin waits… waits for his chance to steal the navigation charts and to kill Jack. This is the first book in Bradford’s “Young Samurai” series<\/a> – your chance to travel back into a closed society and heart-pounding adventure on a World Wednesday. Book info<\/b>: The Way of the Warrior (Young Samurai #1) \/ Chris Bradford. Disney Hyperion, 2009 [author’s website<\/a>] [book series website<\/a>] [book trailer<\/a>] Review copy and cover art courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n My Book Talk<\/b>: Stormdriven to the rocky shores of 1612 Japan, Jack sees his father and shipmates killed by ninja pirates. Rescued from the wreckage by a samurai\u2019s men, the young blond teen is the first Englishman ever to visit Japan, bringing with him only his father\u2019s secret sea navigation charts.<\/p>\n Jack is adopted into the family of samurai Masamoto who has mourned for 2 years since his elder son was assassinated by \u201cDragonEye,\u201d the same green-eyed ninja who killed Jack\u2019s father. At age 12, Jack must quickly learn how to handle a wooden practice sword and chopsticks, how to speak Japanese and follow the many rules of this polite society, how to \u201cfall seven times and rise up eight.\u201d Akiko, daughter of a fallen samurai, helps Jack learn these many lessons as they prepare to enter the samurai academy in Kyoto.<\/p>\n Will the younger Masamoto son accept this \u201cgaijin\u201d foreigner as a foster brother or keep fighting against him? Will Jack succeed at the samurai academy as he seeks to learn the Way of the Warrior? When DragonEye threatens the capital city, can Jack and the other young samurai stop him? And will Jack ever get home to England again?<\/p>\n
\nOnly Masamoto’s power within the empire allows the blond-haired teen to accompany him to train with other young men and women in the most-demanding of martial arts<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n**kmm<\/p>\n