Samurai Shortstop

Samurai Review

This book is about a high schooler in Japan that attends the best school in the nation. He is on the baseball club, and this book is about how he goes through the year with all of the mean upper class-men. I liked his great problem solving skills throughout the year at his high school. It was also fun watching the ways he practiced playing baseball and also practicing bushido. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone that likes baseball, or is interested in the way of samurai.

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How long has Japan loved baseball? You might be shocked at the answer!

It is the classic tale of old traditions run solidly into change and progress. Ironically, Alan Gratz¿s story is set in Japan in 1890. With deft, this author introduces us to the timeless characters of Toyo Shimada, his father, and a series of friends and nemeses (including United States personages). As Toyo struggles to adapt to the rigors of Ichiko and the hazing that are a part of the process, he also has to make decisions about how he will respond to the new classless society that Emperor Meiji is attempting to promulgate. This book was as educational as entertaining. In his author¿s note, Mr. Gratz includes a list of his sources as well as the history that supports his efforts to remain true to the kinds of activities that were happening at the time in which the book is set. There were many fascinating pieces¿including the fact that baseball has had almost as long and distinguished a history in Japan as it has had in the United States. This book surprised me with its depth and richness. I highly recommend it to anyone who is teaching courses on diversity and tolerance as well as anyone teaching world history.

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A real page turner

Im onlyba sophomore in high school but this book was interesting anyone would want to read it!!

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who knew that baseball was so old

this book, samuai shortstop, is about this boy named toyo who plays baseball in japan in the 1800's. it's a book about bullying and it's about taking responsibility i liked how toyo ignored the headmaster and did what he believed in. there are funny parts and some parts that souldn't be there {like when the senior beat up the little kids.} overall it was an okay book. people who like baseball, this is the book for you.

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The best book i have ever read

This is probably the best book ever written. there is a mix of everything. Drama, action, and havoc. Gratz has done it again. I would say that this is the best book i have ever read.

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