Samuri of Gold Hill

by Yoshiko Uchida

Book Overview

Here is a story based on a true, if almost forgotten, incident in California history: the founding of the Wakamatsu colony, a Japanese society near Sacramento, by exiles from the wars that wracked... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916870863
• ISBN13: 9780916870867
• Release Date: February 1985
• Publisher: Creative Arts Book Company
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 7 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 2 and higher

Customer Reviews

Great historical fiction

I remember borrowing this book so many times from the school library and even did a book report on it. The struggle to adjust to a completely different lifestyle that Koichi and his family go through are poignantly displayed in the book. Having to go from a feudal warrior culture to California's gold rush era is quite a shock to one's cultural sensibilities. I applaud Yoshiko Uchida and this wonderful book of hers.