Samurai Awakening: (Samurai Awakening Book 1)

by Benjamin Martin

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**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 teenagers, 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 Japan, David 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.
  • ISBN10 0804847371
  • ISBN13 9780804847377
  • Publish Date 18 October 2016 (first published 10 October 2012)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 11 March 2023
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Tuttle Publishing
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 320
  • Language English