Naruta, the Boy Ninja / Tracey West / 75 pages / First Book in a Series

Uzumaki Naruto is studying to be a Ninja, but he is failing miserably.  He would rather play practical jokes and deface statues with graffiti than study or practice.  His sensei, Master Iruka, is stern and strict with the orphan, seeing his younger self in Naruto.  At the behest of Mizuki, Naruto steals the Scroll of Sealing from Lord Hokage.  Mizuki wishes to unleash the 9-tailed fox that once threatened the village.  Naruto proves himself to be a hero, as well as an apt pupil, in this adaptation of the manja based on traditional Japanese culture by Masashi Kishimoto.