{"product_id":"shipwrecked-the-true-adventures-of-a-japanese-boy-9780688174859","title":"Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy","description":"Any person who leaves\u003cbr\u003ethe country to go to another\u003cbr\u003eand later returns\u003cbr\u003ewill be put to death.\u003cp\u003eThis was the law in Japan in the early 1800s. When fourteen-year-old Manjiro, working on a fishing boat to help support his family, was shipwrecked three hundred miles away from his homeland, he was heartbroken to think that he would never again be able to go home. So when an American whaling boat rescued him, Manjiro decided to do what no other Japanese person had ever done: He went to America, where he received an education and took part in events that eventually made him a hero in the Land of the Rising Sun.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlumberg, Rhoda:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eRhoda Blumberg has written about the opening of Japan (1853-1854) in Commodore Perry in the \u003cem\u003eLand of the Shogun, \u003c\/em\u003e a Newbery Honor Book, which also won the Boston Globe\/Horn Book Award and the Golden Kite Award. Her acclaimed histories also include \u003cem\u003eThe Incredible Journey of Lewis \u0026amp; Clark, The Great American Gold Rush, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Remarkable Voyages of Captain Cook, \u003c\/em\u003e all ALA Notable Books. She is the winner of the \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\/\u003c\/em\u003eChildren's Book Guild Award for her overall contribution to nonfiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRhoda Blumberg says that while doing research for \u003cem\u003eCommodore Perry, \u003c\/em\u003e I read about the ordeals and strange adventures of Manjiro, then spent years replaying his life story in my mind until I felt impelled to write about him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author and her husband, Gerald, live in Yorktown Heights, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50646618243346,"sku":"9780688174859","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_82c527d9-fb6f-40dd-afbc-7c39aa88c88e.jpg?v=1733182289","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/shipwrecked-the-true-adventures-of-a-japanese-boy-9780688174859","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}