Risuko: A Kunoichi Tale

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**Can One Girl Win A War?** *My name is Kano Murasaki, but everyone calls me* Risuko. *Squirrel.* *I am from Serenity Province, though I was not born there.* *My nation has been at war for a hundred years, Serenity is under attack and the Kano family is in disgrace, but some people think that I can bring victory. That I can be a very special kind of woman.* *All I want to do is climb.* *My name is Kano Murasaki, but everyone calls me Squirrel.* Risuko. - Though Japan has been devastated by a century of civil war, Risuko just wants to climb trees. Growing up far from the battlefields and court intrigues, the fatherless girl finds herself pulled into a plot that may reunite Japan - or may destroy it. She is torn from her home and what is left of her family, but finds new friends at a school that may not be what it seems. Magical but historical, Risuko follows her along the first dangerous steps to discovering who she truly is. Kano Murasaki, called Risuko (Squirrel) is a young, fatherless girl, more ...