Although he rebels against life in the Tibetan Buddhist monastery
where he has been sent, fourteen yeat old Thunder comes to some amazing
realizations about himself.
"Through an odd twist of fate,
a stubborn twelve-year-old boy named Koji is kidnapped by a secret ninja
clan and taken to its hidden camp high in the mountains. He wants desperately
to return home, but that is forbidden. He must forget his old life and
become a ninja--or die.