Description |
236 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Disaster in Kyoto: Kyoto, 1160 -- Headless ghosts: Kurama, 1160-1174 -- Samurai boot camp: Hiraizumi, 1174-1180 -- Brothers-in-arms: Kamakura, 1180-1184 -- Perilous river: Kyoto, 1184 -- Midnight strike: Ichi-no-Tani, 1184 CE -- Hooves like hailstones: Ichi-no-Tani, 1184 CE -- Into the storm: Kyoto, Shikoku, and Yashima, 1184-1184 -- Hooves like hailstones: Ichi-no-Tani, 1184 -- Into the storm: Kyoto, Shikoku, and Yashima, 1184-1185 -- The dropped bow: Yashima, 1185 -- The drowned sword: Dan-no-Ura -- Assassins in the dark: Dan-no-Ura, Kyoto, and Koshigoe, 1185 -- Shizuka's song: Kyoto, Kamakura, and the Yoshino Mountains, 1185-1186 -- The fugitive: locations unknown, 1185-1187 -- Feast of arrows: Hiraizumi, 1187-1189 -- Epilogue: the samurai weeps. |
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Junior Library Guild |
Summary |
At the age of fifteen, Yoshitsune escaped the monastery where he had been exiled. Blow by painful blow, he learned the art of the sword. Fall after bruising fall, he mastered mounted archery. He joined his half brother Yoritomo in an uprising against the most powerful samurai in Japan. |
Audience |
Ages 14 & up. |
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Grades 9 & up. |
Study Program |
AR UG RL 7.2 PTS 6.0 179546 |
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950L Lexile. |
Study Program |
Reading Counts High School 7.4 10 |
Awards |
A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG) |
Subject |
Minamoto, Yoshitsune, 1159-1189 -- Juvenile literature.
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Minamoto, Yoshitsune, 1159-1189.
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Minamoto, Yoshitsune, 1159-1189.
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Generals -- Japan -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Samurai -- Japan -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Generals -- Japan -- Biography.
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Samurai -- Japan -- Biography.
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Generals -- Japan -- Biography.
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Samurai -- Japan -- Biography.
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Japan -- History -- Heian period, 794-1185 -- Juvenile literature.
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Japan -- History -- Heian period, 794-1185.
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Japan -- History -- Heian period, 794-1185.
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Added Author |
Hind, Gareth, illustrator.
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ISBN |
9781580895842 (hardcover) |
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