The Heart of a Samurai By Margi Preus

The Heart of a Samurai  is about a Japanese boy named Manjiro who is on a small fishing boat with four other Japanese fisherman. They get caught in a huge storm and their boat brakes. They go to a nearby island and an American vessel comes and gets the boys. Manjiro becomes good friends with the captain and the captain asks him two things. You can stay on the boat with the captain and go and live with him in America or Manjro and his fiends could get off at the next stop. Manjro decides to stay on the ship and his friends will go and live on the island. When he gets home with Captain Whitfield he starts school. All the people are making fun of him except for two kids, Terry and Job. Manjiro goes on another ship and Terry and him go to find gold in California and then he does he goes and gets his friends and goes home to Japan.

Someone who likes historical fiction would really like this book.     

by A.S.