Bamboo Sword
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Set in 1853 in Japan, this novel follows Yoshi, a Japanese boy who dreams of someday becoming a samurai. Unfortunately, as part of the serving class Yoshi can never become a warrior. He is taken up by Manjiro, the protagonist of Preus’s Heart of a Samurai, and becomes his servant and secret watchdog. Meanwhile, Commodore Matthew Perry and his USS Susquehanna squadron arrive on the shores of Edo demanding “diplomatically” that Japan open its ports to foreign trade. Aboard the Susquehanna is a cabin boy, Jack, who becomes separated from his American companions while on shore. When he and Yoshi cross paths, they set out on a grand adventure to get Jack back to his ship before he is discovered by the shogun’s samurai.
Margi Preus is the author of West Of The Moon, Heart Of A Samurai and Shadow On The Mountain. She also writes and co-writes plays, sketches, adaptations, comic operas and theatrical tidbits for a variety of children's and adult theatre companies. She continues to write for Colder by the Lake Comedy Theater for which she has served as Artistic Director since the dawn of time. In addition, she teaches Children's Literature at the College of St. Scholastica and the occasional fiction writing course at UMD.