Jessica DiCicco
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Series
Shuriken School volume 10
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English
Description
Winter has covered Shuriken with its coat of snow and fog. Visibility is down to a bare minimum and the fog lends a scary appearance to the smallest of bushes. How will the students be able to take their important end of term practical exams in weather like this? The Principal moans, but Kita, as she's flipping through one of Eizan's books, has an idea… The next day, without knowing how they got there, the students wake up to find themselves aboard...
Author
Series
Shuriken School volume 2
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English
Description
Bakufu, the famous Ninja master, offers to teach at Shuriken School. The Principal doesn't dare refuse, but Bakufu's fee is exorbitant. While the Principal attempts to come up with moneymaking schemes, a mysterious thief starts stealing things from the students.
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Series
Shuriken School volume 7
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English
Description
Jimmy and Pig are so busy playing a videogame they forget about homework. They make up a story about being attacked to explain the missing assignment…a mysterious masked gang attacked them, stealing Jimmy's satchel with the papers…
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Series
Shuriken School volume 12
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English
Description
When all the kids start acting crazy in their sleep, it threatens to get everyone expelled from Shuriken School. It's as if all the inner demons of each student are being released in their sleep. Eizan, Okuni and Jimmy must get to the bottom of this mystery … all they have to do is not fall asleep … stay away … stay … awake …
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Shuriken School volume 12
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English
Description
The students are busy cleaning, tidying and polishing the school in preparation for a visit from Shuriken's alumni. While students and staff solemnly wait at the Main Entrance an old man appears, leaning on his cane. This is Aiko, the one and only Alumni member to reply to their invitation. He is overjoyed to see the Cleaning Lady again, his erstwhile sweetheart. The students are astonished too see such a dishevelled Ninja.more
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Series
Shuriken School volume 3
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English
Description
The Principal is happy. A wealthy man is considering placing his son, Kazumi, in Shuriken School, along with a huge cheque, which would put an end to the school's financial dilemma. But first, the boy will spend a day at the School, to see if he likes it. Kazumi seems to appreciate Eizan, so the Principal puts him in charge of looking after the boy. But Kazumi is so spoiled rotten, that soon everyone avoids them (even Eizan's friends avoid him).more...
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Series
Shuriken School volume 6
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English
Description
Jacques cheats to get the better of Okuni in an exercise, with an unfortunate result: Kubo gets lost inside a labyrinth! He was there to prepare the ground for a practical exam scheduled for the Academic Inspector, a grim character with a daunting reputation. While Eizan, Jimmy and Okuni set off in search of Kubo, the rest of the class tries to convince the Inspector and the Principal that Kubo is busy teaching them…more
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Series
Shuriken School volume 11
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English
Description
One night, the Principal comes across a Mysterious Ninja in the school corridors. The Ninja gets away from the Principal, but drops his backpack. The Principal finds all sorts of trophies from Katana School inside. He is just getting over the shock of his discovery when the Mysterious Ninja reappears, snatches the bag away from him and vanishes yet again. The next day, the Principal calls an assembly and asks the guilty student to confess. But no...
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Series
Shuriken School volume 4
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English
Description
Eizan rescues an adorable little chick from prowling tomcats while out walking with Jimmy and Okuni. Although pets are against Shuriken rules, Eizan decides to keep this one until he's fully recovered. Jimmy isn't happy about this, especially when the chick chooses his brand new shoes for a nest! Soon the entire class is in on the secret, but they all promise not to reveal anything… he's such a cute little bird!more
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Series
Shuriken School volume 1
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English
Description
Eizan has to help his dad make rice balls for the Tokirohama Bonanza Weekend and he's so tired he fails his school exercises. To motivate him, Okuni secretly signs him up for the Martial Arts Festival Competition, scheduled to close the Fair. The organizer is no other than the leading Ninja Equipment supplier for all schools: Mister No. He bumps into Kita at the mall, one of his old classmates. He sneers at her because her career has lead her to...
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Series
Shuriken School volume 9
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English
Description
In the perspective of an exchange program with an American school, Shuriken welcomes three students from a… Cheerleading Academy! The only school prepared to take on all the costs for the exchange. At first, our Ninja students aren't too enthralled with the new kids. Cheerleading has nothing to do with Ninjitsu skills!more
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Series
Shuriken School volume 6
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English
Description
This time the school is really falling to ruins. Old worn out material, broken floor boards…everyone is complaining to the Principal who finds himself having to search the internet for the cheapest solution to put things right : a kind of home automated computer called Alice…
Author
Series
Shuriken School volume 11
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English
Description
Laura and Sam, two private detectives who seem to have come straight out of a detective novel, want to follow a training course at Shuriken with the aim of improving their skills. They need to be able to arrest a gang of audacious thieves. The Principal lets them convince him with a thick bunch of bank notes that Laura offers him.more
Author
Series
Shuriken School volume 1
Language
English
Description
Great Master Otomo is visiting Shuriken School, and holds a conference about the ancient art of eating rice balls. The class is bored silly and the Principal watches Otomo gulp down one rice ball after the other with suspicion. When Otomo sees that neither class nor teachers are interested, he announces that a Great Philosopher living up in the mountain above the town handed on this precious knowledge, which has enabled the hermit-philosopher to...
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Series
Shuriken School volume 8
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English
Description
Kubo has been so terribly boring lately that no one can listen to his classes. If this continues, the kids will end up a year behind. Our three heroes decide to intervene. They want to find out WHY Kubo is so deadly boring. They follow him, and learn that Kubo not only has a very boring life, but that he mutters the same name in his sleep every night: "Torofi". They set off to discover the identity of this mysterious Torofi, travelling back into...
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Series
Shuriken School volume 3
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English
Description
The Principal tells the students that an election for class leader will soon take place… no ordinary event, this happening is known as a Ninjalection. In this case, the most ingenious candidate gets the most votes… Thus begins a battle for votes between two candidates: on one side Ami (with Tetsuo and Yota in league as campaign managers), and on the other, Okuni, (supported by Eizan and Jimmy). The Principal keeps an eye on their adventures as...
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Series
Shuriken School volume 8
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English
Description
Zumichito has invented a revolutionary smoke machine: the Holosmoke. The Principal sees it as a new source of revenue for the school. When night falls, the Principal and Zumichito discover two undercover ninjas in the school and chase after them.
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Series
Shuriken School volume 7
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English
Description
As Eizan, Jimmy and Okuni are wandering through the shopping mall, a woman has her bag snatched. Our heroes chase after the thief, and, with Ami's help – who was in the middle of doing her shopping – they stop him in his tracks in a most spectacular way. When they take the bag back to the owner, Ami recognizes that it's the famous TV presenter from «Whiz Kids».more
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Series
Shuriken School volume 13
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English
Description
Something's gone terribly wrong with Eizan's father's rice ball business. All the costumers are complaining about the rice balls. They taste like dirt. It's awful. Business is falling off in landslide proportion. And Eizan soon discovers that the only thing worse than all those rice balls is no rice balls! With the rice ball business going bankrupt, Eizan's family is going to have to move and go back to the family farm on a distant island ... which...
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Series
Shuriken School volume 5
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English
Description
As the School prepares to celebrate the anniversary of the town's foundation, a mysterious Ninja from Katana School makes off with Tokiro's (the city's father) famous flip-flops. According to tradition, Shuriken presents these flip-flops to the public during the commemorative parade. If Shuriken School cannot produce them, the school's entire assets will be handed over to Katana School!val school Katana.more