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Manjiro: The Boy Who Risked His Life for Two Countries
Manjiro The Boy Who Risked His Life for Two Countries
Author: Emily Arnold McCully
In 1841, Japan had been closed to the outside world for 250 years, and anyone who tried to return to the country after leaving it could be executed. So when the small fishing boat on which fourteen-year-old Manjiro was working was shipwrecked, he despaired of ever returning to his village. The captain of the American whaling ship that rescued Ma...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780374347925
ISBN-10: 0374347921
Publication Date: 9/30/2008
Pages: 40
Edition: 1st
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Book Type: Hardcover
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