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Ninjas and samurai a nonfiction companion to Magic tree house #5 : Night of the ninjas

"What did it mean to be a ninja or a samurai? Did they really have special abilities? What was life like for them in ancient Japan? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts behind some of history's most intriguing and secretive figures"--Amazo...

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Main Authors: Osborne, Mary Pope (Author), Boyce, Natalie Pope (Author)
Other Authors: Murdocca, Sal (Illustrator), Osborne, Mary Pope.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Random House, [2014]
Series: Magic tree house fact tracker.
Subjects:
Samurai > Japan > History > Juvenile nonfiction.
Ninja > Japan > History > Juvenile nonfiction.
Summary: "What did it mean to be a ninja or a samurai? Did they really have special abilities? What was life like for them in ancient Japan? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts behind some of history's most intriguing and secretive figures"--Amazon.com.
Item Description: "A Stepping Stone Book."
Physical Description: 123 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Bibliography: Includes filmography (page 117), bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780385386326
038538632X
9780385386333
0385386338
9781480650770
1480650773
9780606360173
0606360174
Author Notes: Mary Pope Osborne was born in Fort Sill, Oklahoma on May 20, 1949. She grew up in a military family, and by the time she was 15 she had lived in Oklahoma, Austria, Florida, and four different army posts in Virginia and North Carolina. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she majored in religion. After graduation, she traveled around Europe and Asia. Before becoming an author, she worked as a window dresser, a medical assistant, a Russian travel consultant, a waitress, an acting teacher, a bartender, and an assistant editor for a children's magazine.

Her first book, Run, Run as Fast as You Can, was published in 1982. She is the author of the Magic Tree House series and the Merlin Missions series. Her husband, actor Will Osborne, helps her write the nonfiction companion series, Magic Tree House Research Guides. Her other books include The Deadly Power of Medusa, Jason and the Argonauts, Haunted Waters, and Moonhorse.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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