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| #192076 in Books | Speak | Model: FBA-|293071 | 2008-02-14 | 2008-02-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.30 x.70 x5.50l,.63 | File type: PDF | 280 pages | Samurai Shortstop||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Character, Setting, Baseball!|By Ohioan|I loved this book! The setting, Japan around 1890, was fascinating. The author made the city and the boys' boarding school come alive with selected details. I loved the character of Toyo, a boy who is coming of age at a time when the world is changing drastically. Toyo is under pressure from his father to reject the new ways (baseball, fo|From School Library Journal|Grade 7 Up–It is 1890, and 16-year-old Toyo Shimada is uniquely poised to witness the clash of old and new ways in his native Tokyo. Emperor Meiji has instituted a series of radical reforms; one of them requires that all samurai
Tokyo, 1890. Toyo is caught up in the competitive world of boarding school, and must prove himself to make the team in a new sport called besuboru. But he grieves for his uncle, a samurai who sacrificed himself for his beliefs, at a time when most of Japan is eager to shed ancient traditions. It?s only when his father decides to teach him the way of the samurai that Toyo grows to better understand his uncle and father. And to his surprise, the warrior training gui...
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