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When Jack and Annie came back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #5: Night of the Ninjas, they had lots of questions. What did it mean to be a ninja or a samurai? Did they really have special abilities?...

When seventeen-year-old Rileigh Martin discovers she may be harboring the spirit of Senshi, a samurai, she is torn between continuing as an ordinary, shoe-loving girl and embracing the warrior inside, with help from a handsome martial arts instructor, Kim.

Secret agent Jack Stalwart must take on a band of ninja thieves who have stolen some of Japan's most priceless treasures, including an ancient samurai sword.

Civil war hero Nathan Algren is sent to Japan during the Meiji era in order to train troops to use firearms against the samurai. Soon Algren finds himself swept up in the samurai way of life after being captured by their leader.

"After learning she is a reincarnated samurai, nearly getting killed (several times), and reuniting with a past-life soul mate, Rileigh Martin decides to put her warrior life on hold to focus on her senior year of high school"--

The history of the most elite class of warriors profiles Saigo Takamori, one of the most infamous samurai of all time, from his birth to his glorious death by ritual suicide that brought about the end of hundreds of years of Samurai tradition.

In Japan in 1853, at the time of U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry's visit to Japan, Yoshi, a young Japanese boy who dreams of becoming a samurai one day, learns about America from Majiro and has adventures with Jack, a young cabin boy aboard one of the U.S. ships. Includes historical notes and glossary.