Our May book takes us on the most action-packed adventure yet for NPR's Backseat Book Club. In the Newbery Honor-winning Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus, we meet 14-year-old Manjiro, a Japanese ...

Meghan Cox Gurdon reviews "Heart of a Samurai," a novel for young adults by Margi Preus.

Read an excerpt from Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus.

Heart of a Samurai, Margi Preus, AMULET BOOKS"Heart of a Samurai" is a fictionalized account of the remarkable true story of Nakahama Manjiro, who played an important part as a translator during ...

In picture book author (The Peace Bell) Preus’s excellent first novel, based on the true story of Manjiro Nakahama, Manjiro is 14 in 1841 when he is shipwrecked in a storm. An American whaling ...

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Preus, who lives in Duluth, is the bestselling author of the Newbery Honor book “Heart of a Samurai” and other books for young readers, including “West of the Moon” and the Enchanted Lake ...

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Our May book takes us on the most action-packed adventure yet for NPR's Backseat Book Club. In the Newbery Honor-winning Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus, we meet 14-year-old Manjiro, a Japanese ...

Our May book takes us on the most action-packed adventure yet for NPR's Backseat Book Club. In the Newbery Honor-winning Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus, we meet 14-year-old Manjiro, a Japanese ...