Two decades later, 16-year-old Toyo Shimada is concerned only with surviving his first day at First Higher School of Tokyo and making the Ichiko. Black suits replaced kimonos, trains replaced horses, and salarymen replaced samurai. Samurai Shortstop Alan Gratz Penguin, 2008 - Juvenile Fiction - 280 pages 6 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified Tokyo, 1890. But when he gets there, the school is run by the seniors which causes him and his friends lots of problems as they are the newcomers and the youngest. Almost overnight, Japan transformed itself from a feudal society into an industrial nation. Samurai Shortstop by Alan Gratz is a great Historical Fiction book talking about a intelligent kid who goes to the 'so-called' best school in Japan during the 1800s. Toyo is caught up in the competitive world of board. When its ruling Shogun warlords were overthrown in 1867, Japan awoke from a medieval dream to find itself three centuries behind the rest of the world. Overall, Samurai Shortstop is an amazing book but a little too easy for me to read. Read 135 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. The thing I really didn’t enjoy about this book was that it was fairly easy to read and it did not have a lot of hard vocabulary in it. So, the whole team had to practice really hard for this tough game. Toyo is caught up in the competitive world of boarding school, and must prove himself. The conflict in the book, is that Toyo’s baseball team has to try to beat this really good Japanese team coached by Americans. Gratz Literature & Fiction ISBN: 0142410993 Global Overview for this book. Buy a cheap copy of Samurai Shortstop book by Alan Gratz. That way he is helping the rest of the team improve along with him. Toyo uses the skills he learns from samurai training to help the other boys on his baseball team. But he grieves for his uncle, a samurai who sacrificed himself for his beliefs, at a time when most of Japan is. The five-hundred swings a day with the sword is something that made Toyo stronger and better at baseball.
For one of his training sessions, he had to go into a forest at night where a lot of dangerous animals are and also where his uncle was killed to do five-hundred swings with his sword and to meditate. Throughout the book, the training his dad makes him do is rather interesting. Toyo has to learn the ways of a samurai and he also plays on the baseball team. Samurai Shortstopwas the first book he wrote as a full- time writer,and the first book he sold. This book is about a young boy named Toyo that goes to samurai school, in Japan. Winning as a team is the theme of this book. It is very interesting and it has a good message. Samurai Shortstop is one of the best books I have ever read. Commodore Perry sailed into Yokohama harbor in 1853, and only a few years later, in 1870. : Samurai Shortstop: Signed by the author on publishers bookplate affixed to the ffep.
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