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The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn

The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn( 1 customer ratings | )
Author: Hoobler, Dorothy
Hoobler, Thomas
ISBN:978-0-399-23330-2
Publication Date:Apr 2001
Publisher:Penguin Publishing Group
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $28.00
Book Description:

Samurai fear nothing, not even death. They are loyal and brave. Fourteen-year-old Seikei has studied the way of the samurai, and would like nothing more than to be one. But a samurai is born, not made; Seikei was born the son of a tea merchant, so a merchant he must be. But when a priceless ruby intended for the shogun-the military governor of Japan-is stolen by a ghost, Seikei finds himself having to display all the courage of a samurai. Seikei is the only person to have seen the...
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Book Details
Pages:224
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / General
Juvenile Fiction / Places / Asia
Juvenile Fiction / Mysteries & Detective Stories
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):14.224 x 21.59 x 1.905 cm
Book Weight:0.358 Kilograms
Author Biography
Hoobler, Dorothy (Author)
Dorothy Hoobler is a historian and author of over sixty books, both fiction and nonfiction, mostly for young readers. Her and her husband are the authors of the well-loved American Family Album series, including The Japanese American Family Album, which was named a Carter G. Woodson Honor Book in 1997. The Hooblers won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult Novel in 2005 with In Darkness, Death.

In addition, the Society for School Librarians International chose their book Showa: The Era of Hirohito for a best book award in 1991, and they have been cited for excellence by the Library of Congress, the Parents' Choice Foundation, Bank Street College, the International Reading Association, the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and the New York Public Library.

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