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The ghost in the Tokaido Inn

While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei, a merchant's son who longs to be a samurai, joins a group of kabuki actors in eighteenth-century Japan.

Main Author: Hoobler, Dorothy.
Other Authors: Hoobler, Thomas
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Philomel Books, c1999.
Subjects:
Samurai > Young adult fiction.
Kabuki > Young adult fiction.
Japan > History > Tokugawa period, 1600-1868 > Young adult fiction.
Mystery fiction > Young adult.
Summary: While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei, a merchant's son who longs to be a samurai, joins a group of kabuki actors in eighteenth-century Japan.
Physical Description: 214 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 039923330X
Author Notes: Dorothy Hoobler is a historian and author of over sixty books, both fiction and nonfiction, mostly for young readers. Her and her husband are the authors of the well-loved American Family Album series, including The Japanese American Family Album, which was named a Carter G. Woodson Honor Book in 1997. The Hooblers won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult Novel in 2005 with In Darkness, Death.

In addition, the Society for School Librarians International chose their book Showa: The Era of Hirohito for a best book award in 1991, and they have been cited for excellence by the Library of Congress, the Parents' Choice Foundation, Bank Street College, the International Reading Association, the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and the New York Public Library.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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