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Time TravelSamurai & Feudal Japan

Sam Samurai

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  • 2001 first published
  • 85 pages
  • 12 editions
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Sam Samurai is a 2001 time-travel fiction and feudal-Japan fiction novella by Jon Scieszka. It takes readers to Japan in the Tokugawa period, 1600–1868. It deals with time travel, Samurai, Haiku and Historia.

5 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 12 editions.

It runs to roughly 85 pages — about an hour and a half of reading at an average pace.

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Era

Subjects

  • Children's fiction
  • Time travel
  • Samurai
  • Humorous stories
  • Japan
  • Haiku
  • Novela juvenil
  • Historia
  • Viaje a través del tiempo
  • Hai Kai
  • Tokugawa period, Japan, 1600-1868

Quick answers

Who wrote Sam Samurai?

Sam Samurai was written by Jon Scieszka and first published in 2001.

What genre is Sam Samurai?

It is usually shelved as Time Travel and Samurai & Feudal Japan.

How long is Sam Samurai?

The median edition has 85 pages, about about an hour and a half of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Sam Samurai?

Readers who like it often enjoy Dragon of the Red Dawn, Il Segreto Dei Tre Samurai and Night of the Ninjas.

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