In Samurai of Gold Hill, young Koichi and his Samurai father (defeated champion of the Shogun) come with the Wakamatsu Colony to establish a tea and silk-farm in post-gold-rush California.
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This well written and researched historical fiction about the first Japanese immigrants to the United States easily allows the reader to identify with Koichi and his people.
A California Commonwealth Club Medal Winner -- Childrens' Book Review Service
A California Commonwealth Club Medal Winner -- Childrens' Book Review Service
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Yoshiko Uchida, who lived in Berkeley, California, was the author of many children's books, as well as books for adults. She was the foremost Japanese-American woman writing about the Japanese-American experience. She said of these books: "I hope not only to reinforce the self-knowledge of young Asians, but to give all young people a sense of continuity with history and kinship with the past."
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Great historical fiction,
By Warren King "psycho-g" (Jersey City, NJ) - See all my reviews
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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.
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Samauri of Gold Hill,
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I thought it was an easy read but important both from a historical and personal view of whatit must have been like to uproot, put your faith in someone and courageously move half a world away. The anticipated prejudices, trials and tribulations of being the first Japanese to settle in America is well told - simply and colorfully through the eyes of a young boy. Nicely done.
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It was the fourth month of the Year of the Serpent, 1869, and a fine spring rain fell softly over the town of Wakamatsu deep in the Bandai-Azuma mountains of Japan. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
southern clans, silkworm eggs, big creek Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Herr Schnell, Gold Hill, Hiram Bellweather, Lord Matsudaira, Thomas Whitlow, Kate Whitlow, Wakamatsu Colony, Maidu Indian, San Francisco New!
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It was the fourth month of the Year of the Serpent, 1869, and a fine spring rain fell softly over the town of Wakamatsu deep in the Bandai-Azuma mountains of Japan. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
southern clans, silkworm eggs, big creek Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Herr Schnell, Gold Hill, Hiram Bellweather, Lord Matsudaira, Thomas Whitlow, Kate Whitlow, Wakamatsu Colony, Maidu Indian, San Francisco New!
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- Journey To Topaz: A Story Of The Japanese-American Evacuation by Yoshiko Uchida in Back Matter
- Peaceful Painter: Memoirs of an Issei Woman Artist by Hisako Hibi in Back Matter
- Henry Sugimoto: Painting an American Experience by Kristine Kim in Back Matter
- Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience by Lawson Fusao Inada in Back Matter
- Your Classroom Library: New Ways to Give It More Teaching Power: Great Teacher-Tested and Research-Based Strategies for Organizing and Using Your Library by Ray Reutzel on page 105, and Back Matter
- Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family by Yoshiko Uchida in Front Matter
- The Best Bad Thing (Best Bad Thing Mkm Cloth) by Yoshiko Uchida in Front Matter
- Bookpeople: A Multicultural Album by Sharron L. McElmeel on page 132
- Extraordinary Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (Extraordinary People) by Susan Sinnott on page 123
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