Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment

of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston

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Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp—with 10,000 other Japanese Americans. Along with searchlight towers and armed guards, Manzanar ludicrously featured cheerleaders, Boy Scouts, sock hops, baton twirling lessons and a dance band called the Jive Bombers who would play any popular song except the nation's #1 hit: "Don't Fence Me In."Farewell to Manzanar is the true story of one spirited Japanese-American family's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention—and of a native-born American child who discovered what it was like to grow up behind barbed wire in the United States.

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Nonfiction Nonfiction History Memoir Biography School World War II Historical Classics War Autobiography

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Book Details

Format Paperback
Pages 203 pages
Publisher Dell
Publication Date 1995
First Publication 10/29/72
Language English
ISBN 9780553272581
Edition Not informed
Category Non-Fiction
Scenario ['Independence (United States)']

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