Copyright © 2016 by Kieran Fanning

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First published in the United Kingdom in 2015 as The Black Lotus by Chicken House, 2 Palmer Street, Frome, Somerset BA11 1DS.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Fanning, Kieran, author.

Title: The Black Lotus : shadow of the ninja / Kieran Fanning.

Description: First American edition. | New York : Chicken House/Scholastic Inc., 2016. | Originally published: Frome, Somerset : Chicken House, 2015. | Summary: Ghost can become invisible, Cormac can run up walls, and Kate can talk to animals—all talents that make them perfect recruits for the Black Lotus, a training school for the ninjas who are sworn to protect the world from the evil Samurai-run Empire and its plot to find the Moon Sword, a dangerous, powerful weapon in sixteenth-century Japan.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016005107| ISBN 9780545940283 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 0545940281 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Ninja—Juvenile fiction. | Samurai—Juvenile fiction. | Time travel— Juvenile fiction. | Swords—Juvenile fiction. | Adventure stories. | Japan—History— 16th century—Juvenile fiction. | CYAC: Ninja—Fiction. | Samurai—Fiction. | Time travel—Fiction. | Swords—Fiction. | Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. | Japan—History—16th century—Fiction. | GSAFD: Adventure fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.F355 Bl 2016 | DDC 823.92—dc23

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First edition, October 2016

Jacket art © 2016 by Matthew Griffin

Jacket design by Carol Ly

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