Haugaard, Erik Christian <br/><br/>
The boy and the Samurai / 
Erik Christian Haugaard. 
 - Boston :  Houghton Mifflin Company,  1991. 
 - 221 p. 
<br/><br/> Having grown up as an orphan of the streets while sixteenth-century Japan is being ravaged by civil war, Saru seeks to help a samurai rescue his wife from imprisonment by a warlord so they can all flee to a more peaceful life. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0618615113 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Japan--History--Fiction--Period of civil wars, 1480-1603