Samurai Shortstop
By Alan Gratz
Publisher
Dial
Imprint
Dial
ISBN
By Alan Gratz
0803730756
Awards and Honors Book Sense Children’s Picks – Spring 2007Samurai Shortstop
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SKU
9780803730755J
It is 1890, and Japan is changing. Almost overnight, the country has gone from a feudal society to a land of streetcars, locomotives, movie theaters . . . and the recently imported game of baseball. Caught in the middle is high school student Toyo Shimada. His samurai father insists on teaching him Bushido, the way of the warrior, but all Toyo wants to do is turn dobu pures (double plays) as shortstop of his school team. Can he find a way to reconcile old and new? Author's notes. Bibliography.
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