Shipwrecked

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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.

NOTE: Blumberg's "Commodore Perry in the land of the Shogun" is a companion volume.

ISBN10: 068817485X	ISBN13: 9780688174859
Format: Paperback	Pages: 80
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc	GoodReads Rating: 4
Author: Rhoda Blumberg,

Shipwrecked

Enjoyed by readers of age: 9 to 12

Read the most by: boys and girls

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