The Book of Heroes by Miyabe, Miyuki

The Book of Heroes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781421540832)

Vendor: Miyuki Miyabe
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$14.99
$14.99
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The Book of Heroes by Miyabe, Miyuki

The Book of Heroes

$14.99
The Book of Heroes by Miyabe, Miyuki

The Book of Heroes

$14.99
Format: Paperback
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A young girl travels into a magical land to save her brother from real-world bullies...and from the evil King in Yellow.

Reads L to R (Western Style).

When her brother Hiroki disappears after a violent altercation with bullies, Yuriko finds a magical book in his room. She learns that Hiroki has been possessed by The Book of Heroes, and that only she can save him. With the help of the monk Sky, the dictionary-mouse Aju, and the mysterious Man of Ash, Yuriko has to solve the mystery of her vanished brother and save the world from the evil King in Yellow.

Author: Miyuki Miyabe
ISBN-10: 1421540835
ISBN-13: 9781421540832
Publisher: Haikasoru
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2011
Pages: 350
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d
By Miyuki Miyabe
By Miyuki Miyabe
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Miyuki Miyabe's debut story, "Warera ga rinjin no hanzai" (Our neighbor's crime), won a new writer award in 1987, and since that time, she has become one of Japan's most popular and best-selling authors. Miyabe's fantasy novel Brave Story won the Batchelder Award for best children's book in translation from the American Library Association in 2007. The Gate of Sorrows is an adult novel in the same universe as The Book of Heroes (Haikasoru, 2010). Her other works available in English include All She Was Worth, Cross Fire, The Sleeping Dragon, Apparitions, ICO: Castle in the Mist, and more.

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