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Product Description Travel back in time to learn about history's most courageous warriors! Readers can experience the life and times of fearsome Vikings, honor-bound Samurai, stealthy ninjas, and chivalrous knights. With riveting, full-color graphic novel stories of famous historical warriors, readers will get an in-depth look at each warrior class's time and culture, as well as learning key details about the warriors' armor, weapons, skills, and missions. Book Description • Historical information conveyed through graphic novel storytelling grabs readers' attention and keeps them wanting more • Provides readers with extra facts and a map highlighting the location of several historical battles and events involving Samurai warriors • Discussion questions and writing prompts • Read More and Internet Site resources About the Author Matt Chandler is a newspaper editor and freelance journalist from New York. Matt grew up in a family of hunters and developed his love of the outdoors early in life as a Boy Scout. Matt has been writing professionally since 1996. The New York Press Association named him an award-winning writer in 2007 and 2010. Blake A. Hoena grew up in central Wisconsin, where he wrote stories about robots conquering the moon and trolls lumbering around the woods behind his parents house. He now lives in Minnesota and continues to write about fun things like space aliens and superheroes. Blake has written more than fifty chapter books and graphic novels for children. Nel Yomtov is a writer of children’s nonfiction books and graphic novels. He specializes in writing about history, country studies, science, and biography. His graphic novel adaptation, Jason and the Golden Fleece, published by Stone Arch Books/Capstone was a winner of the 2009 Moonbeam Children’s Book Award and the 2011 Lighthouse Literature Award. Nel is an avid American military history buff and has written two additional gra