Blue+Fingers

Koji is a boy who is the eldest of a twin, but he thinks his younger twin is better than him. Where he lives, twins are considered unlucky. One day, his younger brother, Taro, saves an important man's life and the man offers a job to him. He didn't really see Taro's face, so his parents send Koji instead. The man Taro saved was a master dye maker, so Koji becomes a clumsy apprentice for him. Later, his foster parents decided to send him back to his family, but Koji runs away in time. He ran to a cursed forest and gets captured by a ninja named Spider. Spider was told to kill anyone he sees, but he takes Koji prisoner because he had a samurai cloth, and takes him back to camp. The other ninjas are threatening to kill Koji, but they decide to give him a test. He has to go into the castle and look around and come back telling them what he saw. He comes back and the ninjas agree to start training him to be like them. He trains hard and soon earns the name, Blue Fingers. When he got that name, he told them about the musket he saw the king was looking at when he was tested in the castle. They start to make plans to stop the order of the killer machines. A bit later, Blue Fingers saw smoke coming from his home town. He goes over there and finds out Lord Udo burned down the town. He saw no one in sight and had the thought his family was killed. The ninjas found out that Lord Udo was superstitious and that Koji is a twin. They decided to go get his twin and train him too. When he finds the master dye maker, he asks him where his family is. They all survived except his father. Taro comes back with him and trains. Later, they go to Lord Udo's room and played tricks on him to make him think that ordering the muskets would lead to his son's death. So he stopped the muskets from coming. In success, Koji and Taro go back to their mother and find out that the master dye maker's house is a ninja hideaway.He also thinks that the dye maker is the Jonin who is the secret leader of the ninja's.He learned that when he was little his parents tried to suffocate him but he didn't die.

I learned that ninjas back then were considered "grass," and saying the word "ninja" was dangerous. Also, twins are very unlucky and ninjas are considered a dishonor. I used to think ninjas worked alone, but they live in little clans and consider everyone in their clan their family.-Leah Busses I learned that the people of Japan are quite poor. I also learned that the emperor can take their rice and all the things that they farm for himself. -Josh

I would recommend this book to a lot of people. I think it is a great book and a quick read, it's interesting on how much I liked it even though I never read a book involving ninjas. The action doesn't come right away, so people with very short attention spans shouldn't read it. It was a big change in the category of books I read. It probably would be more interesting to boys than girls though. I was surprised when Mrs. Broers said that mostly boys read this book.-Leah Busses I would recommend this book to a lot of people. I think it is a good book because it has a lot of action. I like that they have a lot of weapons to use and they all have their own Ki. -Josh