The Book of Heroes

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A young girl travels into a magical world to save her brother from real-world bullies.

L to R (Western Style). A young girl travels into a magical world to save her brother from real-world bullies.

When her brother Hiroki disappears after a violent altercation with school bullies, the young Yukiro finds a magical book in his room. The book leads her to another world where she learns that Hiroki has been possessed b a spirit from the Book of Heroes. She visits the magical Nameless Land, where she is told how to save her brother, and is sent back to Earth with a young monk named Sora and the magical book, now a mouse named Azu. Yuri has to piece together the mystery of Horiko, and has a library of pwerful magic books at her disposal to do so! When her brother Hiroki disappears after a violent altercation with school bullies, the young Yukiro finds a magical book in his room. The book leads her to another world where she learns that Hiroki has been possessed b a spirit from the Book of Heroes. She visits the magical Nameless Land, where she is told how to save her brother, and is sent back to Earth with a young monk named Sora and the magical book, now a mouse named Azu. Yuri has to piece together the mystery of Horiko, and has a library of pwerful magic books at her disposal to do so!

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Miyuki Miyabe's debut story, Warera ga rinjin no hanzai (Our neighbors crime), won a new writer award in 1987, and since that time, she has become one of Japan's most popular and best-selling authors. Miyabe's fantasy novelBrave Storywon the Batchelder Award for best children's book in translation from the American Library Association in 2007.The Gate of Sorrowsisan adult novel in the same universe asThe Book of Heroes(Haikasoru, 2010). Her other works available in English includeAll She Was Worth,Cross Fire,The Sleeping Dragon,Apparitions,ICO: Castle in the Mist, and more.