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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Published: Aug 2005
Genre: Children & Young Adults Fiction - Historical - Asia
Retail Price: $9.99
Pages: 234
When the powerful Lord Takeda's soldiers sweep across the countryside, killing and plundering, they spare the boy Taro's life and take him along with them. Taro becomes a servant in the household of the noble Lord Akiyama, where he meets Togan, a cook, who teaches Taro and makes his new life bearable. But when Togan is murdered, Taro's life takes a new direction: He will become a samurai, and redeem the family legacy that has been stolen from him.