Download or read book The Boy and the Samurai written by Erik Christian Haugaard and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1991 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having grown up as an orphan of the streets while sixteenth-century Japan is being ravaged by civil war, Saru seeks to help a samurai rescue his wife from imprisonment by a warlord so they can all flee to a more peaceful life.