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

James D. Houston

3.6/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 203

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Dell

Release: August 28, 1995

ISBN: 0553272586

ISBN 13: 9780553272581

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

James D. Houston

3.6/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 203

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Dell

Release: August 28, 1995

ISBN: 0553272586

ISBN 13: 9780553272581

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