Published- 1984
Price- $7.95
Ages- 12 to 16
Reviewer- Andrea Dow
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This book is about a boy whose name is changed to Taro. He is captured by an older Samurai and has to learn how to be a proper human being (at least in the eye’s of a Samurai). Tauro goes up the ranks from helping the cook in the kitchen, taking care of the Samurai’s horses, being the Samurai’s errand boy all the way to becoming a Samurai himself. As in most stories about characters who go through a "coming of age" journey Tauro does end up becoming a Samurai, which is basically how the story ends. I mainly picked up this book because of the Samurai on the cover, thinking that this book would tell me an exciting and captivating story about Samurai's. This book did not do this. To me, this story is not one that successfully tells the story that it tries to. The story is not interesting, it is comparable a person's mouth after they eat twenty-five saltines in a row. I understand that not every moment in a book is always interesting so I fought through the dry reading in hopes on interesting section. There were none, the story is just constantly dry. I would not recommend that libraries purchase this book and place it on their shelves. Librarians should spend more time researching books about Samurais and find one that children will actually find interesting. Published- 1984 Price- $7.95 Ages- 12 to 16 Reviewer- Andrea Dow
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