The Way of the Warrior
by Chris Bradford • Book 1 of the Young Samurai Series
Shipwrecked on the shore of Japan, twelve-year-old Jack Fletcher is wounded and alone.... read more
- Grade
- 4-12
- Genre
- Adventure
- Historical Fiction
Year Published 2009
Word Count 68,732
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 860L
- ATOS Reading Level: 6.4
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 129419, 11.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Adventure and adventurers--Fiction
- Orphans--Fiction
- Japan--History--Tokugawa period, 1600-1868--Fiction
- Orphans
- Samurai--Fiction
- Tokugawa period, 1600-1868
- Ninja--Fiction
- Ninja
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | Asia
- Japan
- British
- Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure
- British--Japan--Fiction
- Martial arts
- History
- Samurai
- Martial arts--Fiction
- Adventure and adventurers
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