Samurai Awakening: (samurai Awakening Book 1) – 9784805312285 – Periplus Ori Book

Cover Material: Hardcover
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Publish Date: 2012-10-10
Author: Martin, Benjamin
ISBN-13: 9784805312285
English
Pages: 318

Description:

**Winner of the 2013 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award**

David Matthews is having a rough time. Being a teenager is bad enough, but when he picks up and moves to Japan for a year with barely any knowledge of the language or social behaviors of Japanese teenager’s things go from bad to worse.

Until one day David attends a temple ceremony and finds himself possessed by a Japanese god.

Suddenly he can understand and speak Japanese. He has unbelievable new powers, including the ability to shift into a tiger and a powerful sword he can materialize at will from its sheath–his body. But nothing comes for free and these changes bring David face-to-face with the most terrifying creatures of Japanese legend–vengeful Okami demonic Oni and terrifying ghostly Yurei.

Trained by his host family famous sword-makers and the keepers of an ancient secret entrusted to their family by the first Emperor of JapanDavid must fight desperately to save his host sister from a hoard of Japanese monsters. Evil has returned to Japan and David must overcome his own insecurities if he is to save her and become a True Samurai–the protector of Japan.