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Author
Series
Flame in the mist volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The daughter of a prominent samurai, Mariko has long known her place. She may be an accomplished alchemist, whose cunning rivals that of her twin brother Kenshin, but because she is not a boy, her future has always been out of her hands.
Author
Series
Shadow of the fox volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
One thousand years ago, a wish was made to the Harbinger of Change and a sword of rage and lightning was forged. Kamigoroshi. The Godslayer. It had one task: to seal away the powerful demon Hakaimono.Now he has broken free.Kitsune shapeshifter Yumeko has one task: to take her piece of the ancient and powerful scroll to the Steel Feather temple in order to prevent the summoning of the Harbinger of Change, the great Kami Dragon who will grant one wish...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 49
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Wild Willie showed up at my door and invited me to travel with him to Japan, I jumped at the chance. We were in search of an ancient, legendary samurai scroll that holds the secret to a long-lost fighting technique. The scroll had fallen into the wrong hands, and it was up to me and Wild Willie to track it down and save the day. But first, we would have to fight a group of talented ninjas. Holey cheese -- this would be one adventure I would never...
Series
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Proud stray-samurai, Norachiyo, continues his journey to find his peace while escaping his haunting past. Along the way, he's crossed paths with a few neer-do-well cats and now his shadow is trailed by a clowder of fiendish felines out for blood. The secret police, a molly ninja, and a self-righteous pretty boy are just a few of those looking to take on Norachiyo. But can they prevail against a cat who once slew a god?
Series
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Stray cat samurai Norachiyo wants nothing more than to leave his cruel past behind and live his nine lives in peace, but there are some cats he just can't get off his tail. After joining forces with an unlikely duo-the son of a catnip drug lord and his fellow feline warrior-in-training-Norachiyo comes face-to-face with an old foe: Shiriya Abyhei, the malicious member of the secret police who's been in pursuit of Norachiyo from the very start. Can...
Series
Publisher
Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In medieval Japan, it's a hard life for a stray cat. Every day is filled with struggles and prejudice, from oppression by fellow cats working for cruel masters to extortion by catnip druglords. But being a stray also means incredible pride and independence. The wandering samurai Norachiyo has no master, though he still wears the telltale bell of a cat who has a 'person.' This rogue warrior travels across Japan, protecting the weak and cutting down...
10) Sam Samurai
Author
Series
Time warp trio series volume 10
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Joe, Fred, and Sam are transported to seventeenth century Japan where they infuriate a Samurai warrior, encounter their great-grandaughters, and save their lives by reciting an ancient form of poetry.
Author
Publisher
Scribner Canada
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 1579, a Portuguese trade ship sails into port at Kuchinotsu, Japan, loaded with European wares and weapons. On board is Father Alessandro Valignano, an Italian priest and Jesuit missionary whose authority in central and east Asia is second only to the pope's. Beside him is his protector, a large and imposing East African man. Taken from his village as a boy, sold as a slave to Portuguese mercenaries, and forced to fight in wars in India, the young...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this exciting historical romantasy in the spirit of The Hurricane Wars and The Time Traveler's Wife-Outlander set in Japan-a young Scottish woman is magically transported to the last Samurai era, where she encounters ghosts from the past, her own Japanese ancestry, and a love that transcends time. While in Japan researching her family's history, a vicious typhoon sends Isla Mackenzie 128 years back in time, to the dawn of the Satsuma Rebellion....
Author
Series
Shadow of the fox volume 3
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Even with the combined skills of Kage Tatsumi and the demon Hakaimono inside of him, they both know that it may be impossible to overcome the evil forces that control the cursed sword that keep them trapped as one.
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Becoming a samurai seems like an impossible dream for Hachimaru, a boy who can't even survive without the help of his father. But when a samurai cat appears before him, his whole life changes!... Hachimaru is the last man standing in the samurai battle royale, earning him the right to face the founder of the festival. Can Hachimaru recruit this powerful warrior who claims to be a key to Pandora's Box? Or is something more nefarious about to go down...?"--Provided...
Author
Series
Mike Brink novels volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
It is the Year of the Wood Dragon, and the ingenious Mike Brink has been invited to Tokyo, Japan, to open the legendary Dragon Box. The box was constructed during one of Japan's most tumultuous periods, when the samurai class was disbanded and the shogun lost power. In this moment of crisis, Emperor Meiji locked a priceless Imperial secret in the Dragon Box. Only two people knew how to open the box--Meiji and the box's sadistic constructor--and both...
Author
Publisher
Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In a feudal Japan where creatures of myth and folklore are real, a demon sets out to reforge an ancient weapon to take over the world. The only person who can stop him is a six-inch-tall would-be samurai, who also happens to be the final and most important piece of the weapon"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"The iconic series that launched the alt-manga bible GARO becomes available in English for the very first time. At long last, manga titan Shirato Sanpei's groundbreaking epic makes its way into English. Celebrated as a watershed of both the Japanese counterculture and dramatic, longform storytelling in manga, The Legend of Kamui serves up clashing swords and class struggle to create a timeless political allegory set in feudal Japan. This ten-volume...
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Everyone's favorite Merc with a Mouth has finally come to manga! As soon as Deadpool moves to Tokyo, he runs afoul of some familiar faces. Before he knows it, he's teaming up with new heroes, battling gods, attending concerts, and being repeatedly dismembered. That's good, right? Anyway, Deadpool lands in Tokyo with a bang! What could possibly go wrong when Iron Man invites Deadpool join the Avengers' new Samurai Squad? After all, Deadpool is just...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Worshiping his absent warrior father and urged by the Buddhist monk uncle who raised him to embrace a peaceful life in turbulent late sixteenth-century Japan, Bennosuke confronts painful family truths before pursuing the life of a samurai.
20) The worst ronin
Author
Publisher
Harper Alley
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Being a samurai isn't easy. Sixteen-year-old Chihiro Ito knows that more than anyone. Her father is renowned among the samurai, but the only thing Chihiro is known for is spending way too much time on her phone obsessing over Tatsuo Nakano, Chihiro's idol and the first woman to be accepted into Kesi Academy, a prestigious samurai school. So, when Chihiro's father is conscripted for service and the opportunity arises to work with Tatsuo in his stead,...
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