Two unemployed samurai are saved from drowning by the Ainus, a primitive people on a northern Japanese island, and are torn in their loyalties when the possibility of war arises between the Ainus and a band of Japanese settlers.

The Coming of the Bear: A Novel

Children's Books

Namioka, Lensey

Literature & Fiction

HarperCollinsPublishers

Shipwrecked and then rescued by Ainu, a strange, round-eyed people, samurais Zenta and Matsuzo soon find themselves captives of these strange people, and their escape only leads them into a mystery involving bear attacks on a nearby Japanese settlement.

Teen & Young Adult

Harpercollins

An unemployed samurai reluctantly helps solve a mystery and prevent the overthrow of a young ruler on an island in medieval Japan.

Island of Ogres

HarperCollins, Publishers

Young Kajiro--an unemployed samurai--is mistaken for a famous warrior and is expected to save the villagers from the ogres but instead uncovers a strange mystery replete with terrifying beasts, powerful lords and ladies, and political intrigue in medieval Japan

Striking cut-paper illustrations complement an elegant retelling of a legend from ancient Japan, in which a cat with magical powers finds an unusual way to help his poor, humble master.

The Loyal Cat

Browndeer Pr

Who is the White Fox? Is he merely the mysterious, charismatic leader of a doomed political rebellion? Or is he a powerful spirit, taking revenge on the occupying force that desecrated his shrine? And who-or what-shoves Zenta off a cliff on a dark and misty night? Two unemployed samurai in sixteenth-century feudal Japan find themselves engaged in an adventure charged with trickery and political intrigue.

Den of the White Fox

Historical Fiction

Who is the White Fox? Is he merely the mysterious, charismatic leader of a doomed political rebellion? Or is he a powerful spirit, taking revenge on the occupying force that desecrated his shrine? And who-or what-shoves Zenta off a cliff on a dark and misty night? Two unemployed samurai in sixteenth-century feudal Japan find themselves engaged in an adventure charged with trickery and political intrigue.

Browndeer Press/Harcourt Brace

April and the Dragon Lady

April Chen is happily planning to go away to college, and she has a great new boyfriend, Steve. But as the only girl in her family, April is expected to take care of her grandmother. And Grandma, "the Dragon Lady," hates Steve and has other plans for April. Torn between her duty to her family and her desire for independence, April realizes she must find a way to define herself on her own terms. Includes a reader's guide.

Clarion Books

A Chinese-American teenager, April Chen struggles to find herself and live her own life in the midst of opposing and powerful desires--her plans to attend college and her Chinese grandmother's outrageous demands for her future.

Third Sister and her siblings try to help Eldest Brother, the most talented musician in the Yang family, find work to pay for a new violin.

Yang the Eldest and His Odd Jobs

Education & Reference

Little, Brown Young Readers

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The Coming of the Bear: A Novel

The Coming of the Bear: A Novel

Island of Ogres

Island of Ogres

The Loyal Cat

Den of the White Fox

Den of the White Fox

April and the Dragon Lady

April and the Dragon Lady

Yang the Eldest and His Odd Jobs