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Jeanne Houston, James D. Houston

Farewell to Manzanar

Paperback (Ember Feb. 14, 2012) , 1R edition
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.


From the Paperback edition.
ISBN
0307976076 / 9780307976079
Pages
240
Weight
7.2 oz.
Dimensions
5.5 x 0.5 in.