Newbery Honor winner Margi Preus writes books inspired by her love of the outdoors, her family, and the stories they share. Windswept, Preus’s newest middle grade fantasy novel, is a whirlwind ...

Margi Preus, whose novel, Heart of a Samurai, has just received a 2011 Newbery Honor, is on her way to becoming a media celebrity in Japan. In November, a television crew from NHK, the Japanese ...

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In Scandinavian storytelling, a shard of trollish mirror lodged in a man's eye produces moral blindness, "making everything right seem wrong, everything wrong seem right." So Margi Preus writes in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 28—BEMIDJI — Four Pines Bookstore will host Minnesota author Margi Preus for a book-signing event at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, June 2 ...

Only halfway into a full day dedicated to promoting her new book, "West of the Moon," Duluth writer Margi Preus was undeterred by reports of a pending spring snowstorm threatening to trap her in the ...

Margi Preus' Heart of a Samurai tells the story of Manjiro, a fisherman's son who dreams of becoming a samurai. When his boat is shipwrecked off... Our May book takes us on the most action-packed ...

It's a story that spans five decades, one World War and approximately 6,047 miles. Margi Preus' second children's book in a decade tackles the amazing true story of Duluth's prized Ohara Peace Bell.

This month, NPR's Backseat Book Club hits the high seas for an adventurous novel called Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus. The book begins in 1841, and is based on the sprawling true-life tale of ...

Heart of a Samurai tells the true story of 14-year-old Manjiro, a boy who was shipwrecked, rescued by whalers and taken to America. It was the... Meet Manjiro, Japan's Unlikely Teen Ambassador This ...