
It all has something to do with the way of the warrior but Toyo doesn t understand even after his father agrees to teach it to him. And worse, Toyo fears that his father may be next. Although Uncle Koji s defiant death was supposedly heroic, it has made Toyo question many things about his family s samurai background. Toyo isn t afraid to prove himself He s more troubled by his uncle s recent suicide. Still, he’s taken aback when the seniors keep him from trying out for the baseball team especially after he sees their current shortstop.

High school can be brutal, even in turn of the century Japan.įrom his first day at boarding school, Toyo Shimada sees how upperclassmen make a sport out of terrorizing the first years.

Think you already know the story? Think again. A smart, hip, and funny twist on the tale of Hamlet, where one liners crackle and mystery abounds. Doesn t matter that he s only a junior in high school. The question is motive, and Horatio Wilkes is just the kind of guy who can find things like that out. Branff, media mogul and Trudy s college flame, who wants to buy the plant for himself. Trudy,Hamilton s mom, has recently married her husband s brother, Claude, and signed over half of the plant and its profits to him.

Olivia Mendelssohn may be hot and Hamilton s ex girlfriend, but she s also an environmentalist determined to clean up the river that the Prince paper plant has been polluting for decades. The guys need to find the killer before he strikes again. Horatio Wilkes, Hamilton s best friend, is visiting the Prince mansion when the video turns up. Hamilton Prince’s father has been murdered, according to a hidden video message. Something is rotten in Denmark, Tennessee, and it is not just the polluted Copenhagen River.
