Blood Ninja

Blood Ninja
Author: Nick Lake
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 467
Release: 2009-12-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1416998306

A boy from a small fishing village must face a new reality after his father is murdered and he is rescued by a mysterious ninja in this heart-stopping first novel in the Blood Ninja trilogy. Could Taro, a fisherman’s son, be destined for greatness? In the course of a day, Taro’s entire life changes: His father is murdered before his eyes, and Taro is taken by a mysterious ninja on a perilous journey toward safety. Someone wants Taro dead, but who—and why? With his best friend, Hiro, and their ninja guide, Shusaku, Taro gets caught in the crossfire of a bitter conflict between rival lords for control of imperial Japan. As Taro trains to become a ninja himself, he’s less and less sure that he wants to be one. But when his real identity is revealed, it becomes impossible for Taro to turn his back on his fate.

The Blood Ninja Trilogy

The Blood Ninja Trilogy
Author: Nick Lake
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Total Pages: 1233
Release: 2013-04-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1782391533

Blood Ninja Skilled in the art of silent and deadly combat, ninjas are the agents of powerful nobles who rule sixteenth-century Japan. So when a group of these highly-trained assassins kill Taro's father, he must learn their ways in order to avenge him, evading the wrath of warring Lords, deciphering an ancient curse - and unleashing the blood-soaked secrets of a life lived in moonlight. Lord Oda's Revenge Taro has had his revenge, but Lord Oda is not quiet in his grave. Dangerously weakened, Taro must discover the one object Lord Oda was desperate to find before he died - and he must go to hell and back to get it. The Betrayal of the Living Taro is at a crossroads - no land, no title, and no hope of marrying his beloved Hana. As he sets off on another perilous quest, the future of all feudal Japan is in danger, and everything Taro holds dear will be threatened. The dead have begun to rise.

The Betrayal of the Living: Blood Ninja III

The Betrayal of the Living: Blood Ninja III
Author: Nick Lake
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0857898108

Taro is at a crossroads: He has vanquished Lord Oda for good, but with no land and no title, he has no hope of marrying Hana, the daughter of a daimyo. So when Taro receives news of a murderous dragon and the large reward for killing it, he and his friends find themselves on a dangerous quest to slay the beast. Their mission has the potential to save the people of Japan - but failure will result in the deaths of thousands. And dragons are not the only monsters they will encounter: The dead, led by the odious Kenji Kira, have begun to rise, and they have Taro in their sights. In this heart-stopping conclusion to the Blood Ninja trilogy, the future of all feudal Japan is in danger, and everything Taro holds dear will be threatened. But it is the betrayal of flesh and blood - his own flesh and blood - that may be his ultimate undoing.

Lord Oda's Revenge

Lord Oda's Revenge
Author: Nick Lake
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Blessing and cursing
ISBN: 9781848873896

Taro was just a fisherman's son - but then his father was murdered and Taro was forced to become a Blood Ninja, fated to live by night, doomed to live on the blood of others. But he has had his revenge. He has killed Lord Oda, the warlord who had his father assassinated. But Lord Oda is not quiet in his grave.

Blood Ninja III

Blood Ninja III
Author: Nick Lake
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2012-08-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1442426799

In 16th-century Japan, Taro enlists his friends to help vanquish a dragon in hopes of winning a reward that would allow him to marry Hana, but he also faces surprisingly difficult obstacles as Kenji Kira raises the dead against him, and his own flesh and blood betrays him.

Ninja Camp

Ninja Camp
Author: Sue Fliess
Publisher: Running Press Kids
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2019-01-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0762463309

Pack your bags and grab your gear: you're going to Ninja Camp! Listen closely to the ninja master, who will teach you everything you need to know to become a ninja warrior-but it won't be easy. You'll have to be sly and swift, strong and speedy, and only then will you become a Ninja of the Night! This fun and energetic book will delight and entertain kids and parents alike with its clever, rhyming verse and action-packed depictions of the coolest camp around. For fans of Ninja Red Riding Hood who are looking for a lesson in teamwork and cool stealth skills.

Bryce and the Blood Ninjas

Bryce and the Blood Ninjas
Author: Erec-Michael Ollier Weber
Publisher:
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2013-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9780971648197

When evil robots make Bryce's legs hurt, his worried parents drive him to the hospital. There Doctor Happy sticks him with needles and tells him he has to stay for 10 days! Bryce's father explains to him that some of the needles are filled with fierce Ninjas, who will use their swords and nunchuks to kill the bad robots. Bryce can feel the battle raging inside him. But before very long the Ninjas are winning. Bryce feels good again. He can go to school, play hard, tease his baby brother and roughhouse like any other four-year-old goofball. Bryce knows there might be some robots still hiding in his blood, though. So for a while Doctor Happy will have to send in more tough Ninjas to help Bryce fight until every last robot is dead.

Ninja

Ninja
Author: John Man
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2012-07-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1446487660

The Ninjas today are the stuff of myth and legend in comics, film and electronic games. But once they were real, the medieval equivalent of the SAS: spies, saboteurs, assassins. In their secrecy, under-cover skills and determination to survive, they were the opposite of the overt, self destructive samurai. Could they fly? Make themselves invisible? Of course not.It was just that their skills gave them a magical aura. As a result, martial artists and story-tellers have turned them into fantasy creatures, from James Bond to Mutant Turtles. In Ninja John Man goes in search of the truth. In a journey to the heartland of the ninjas, he takes us from their origins over 1,000 years ago, through their heyday in the civil wars that ended with Japan’s unification in 1600. But that was not the end of the ninja ethos. That re-emerged in World War Two as a little-known counterpart to Japanese militarism. Ninja ways live on in the real ‘last of the ninjas’, Hiroo Onoda, who held out in the Philippine jungle for 30 years.

Blood Ninja II

Blood Ninja II
Author: Nick Lake
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2010-12-07
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1442411856

Now that the vile Lord Oda is dead, Taro and his friends are safe in the mountain lair of the ninjas. Or so they think. When a homing pigeon arrives with news of Taro's mother's whereabouts, Taro sets out for the Tendai monastery - without stopping to consider why the pigeon, which was given to his mother months ago, took so long to arrive. Soon, Taro, Hana and Hiro find themselves in a trap, as strange new creatures invade their lives and familiar enemies surround them – and the most deadly enemy of all is their old friend Yukiko. In the end, despite his vampire abilities, Taro is helpless to prevent the death of his mother. Furious and grief stricken, haunted by her mute and beseeching ghost, he determines to recover the object which Lord Oda was so desperate to procure before he died: the Buddha Ball, source of limitless power. There are just two problems: first, Lord Oda is not dead. And second, the Buddha Ball is not where Taro thought. If Taro is to fulfill his destiny, he must face his arch enemy on an equal battlefield - for Lord Oda is a vampire now too. And then, to make peace with his mother, and recover the Buddha ball, Taro must go to hell and back...

The Book of Blood and Shadow

The Book of Blood and Shadow
Author: Robin Wasserman
Publisher: Ember
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2012
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0375872779

While working on a project translating letters from sixteenth-century Prague, high school senior Nora Kane discovers her best friend murdered with her boyfriend the apparent killer and is caught up in a dangerous web of secret societies and shadowy conspirators, all searching for a mysterious ancient device purported to allow direct communication with God.