Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy

Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy

Publisher: Harper Collins
Author: Rhoda Blumberg
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ISBN 9780688174859, SKU 1074859

Book Title Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy
Publisher: Harper Collins
Author Rhoda Blumberg

Any person who leaves the country to go to another and later returns will be put to death.

This was the law in Japan in the early 1800s. When fourteen-year-old Manjiro, working on a fishing boat to help support his family, was shipwrecked three hundred miles away from his homeland, he was heartbroken to think that he would never again be able to go home. So when an American whaling boat rescued him, Manjiro decided to do what no other Japanese person had ever done: He went to America, where he received an education and took part in events that eventually made him a hero in the Land of the Rising Sun. 

Awards:

  • Book Sense Pick
  • ALA Booklist Editorsu2019 Choice
  • Parents' Choice Gold Award
  • School Library Journal Best Book
  • Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)
  • ALA Notable Childrenu2019s Book
  • New York Public Library's u201cOne Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharingu201d
  • Judy Lopez Memorial Award

ISBN 9780688174859, SKU 1074859