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Brave Story

Miyuki Miyabe

  • 816 pages · about 14 hours
  • First published 2007
  • 2 editions
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1 About this book

With a determined plan to reunite his mother and father, the 10-year-old boy named Wataru knowingly enters a fantasy realm inhabited by a goddess who has the power to change destiny.

With the help of the Lizard Boy, the Cat Girl, and the Fire-breathing Dragon, Wataru faces a series of seemingly insurmountable obstacles on this once-in-a-lifetime adventure. One way or another, the young hero must reach the Tower of Destiny and bring his mother and father back together again.

Good for readers who want: fantasy, a graphic novel, monsters, and a long read.

  • Japan
  • Fantasy
  • Children's stories
  • Social life and customs
  • Monsters
  • Teenagers
  • Graphic novels
  • Comic books, strips

2 About Miyuki Miyabe

Born 1960

Miyuki Miyabe (宮部みゆき, Miyabe Miyuki; born December 23, 1960) is a Japanese writer of genre fiction. She has won numerous Japanese literary awards, including the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers, the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature, the Shiba Ryotaro Prize, the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize, and the Naoki Prize. Her work has been widely adapted for film, television, manga, and video games, and has been translated into over a dozen languages.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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