TY - BOOK AU - Haugaard,Erik Christian TI - The boy and the Samurai SN - 0618615113 PY - 1991/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin Company KW - Japan KW - History KW - Period of civil wars, 1480-1603 KW - Fiction N2 - 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 ER -