The Bamboo Sword
by Margi Preus
Master writer Margi Preus treats readers to an amazing adventure in 1853 Japan. This... read more
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- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Adventure
- Historical Fiction
Year Published 2015
Word Count 51,646
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 820L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.7
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 176194
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Adventure and adventurers--Fiction
- Restoration, 1853-1870
- Seafaring life--Fiction
- Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858--Fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / Asia
- Samurai--Fiction
- Seafaring life
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / Gener
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | Asia
- Japan
- Japan--History--Restoration, 1853-1870--Fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General
- Perry, Matthew Calbraith
- Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure
- Americans
- JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / Asia
- History
- Samurai
- Friendship--Fiction
- Americans--Japan--Fiction
- Adventure and adventurers
- Friendship
- Nakahama, Manjirō, 1827-1898--Fiction
- Nakahama, Manjirao
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- Juvenile Collection
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Awards & Distinctions 1

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2020
Middle Selection, 2016
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