Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780688174859)

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.

Author: Rhoda Blumberg
ISBN-10: 068817485X
ISBN-13: 9780688174859
Publisher: HarperCollins
Language: English
Published: 01/07/2003
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.47w x 0.23d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.4
Point Value: 2
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 46291 / Shipwrecked! the True Adventures of a Japanese Boy


Review Citation(s):
PW Notes and Reprints 01/06/2003 pg. 62
Publishers Weekly 01/06/2003