Kensuke's kingdom

by Michael Morpurgo

First published 1999 · 164 pages

About this book

Michael's parents buy a yacht, and take him off to sail round the world. Washed overboard in a fierce storm, Michael finds himself on the shore of a remote island - and soon discovers he's not alone. Kensuke, a former Japanese soldier, survived the war and the bombing of Hiroshima, but his family perished. As an extraordinary bond forms between the two, Kensuke faces a heart-breaking choice: can he give up the secluded life he's built for himself to help reunite Michael with his parents?

  • Juvenile fiction
  • Fiction
  • Japanese
  • Islands
  • Castaways
  • Survival
  • Shipwrecks
  • Adventure stories

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