Risuko

David Kudler

**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...

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