Farewell to Manzanar
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0553272586
ISBN 13
9780553272581
Category
Nonfiction: Biography
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Publication Year
1974
Publisher
Bantam Books, United States
Pages
145
Tags
Abstract
As haunting as The Diary of Anne Frank--the touching true story of a Japanese American family during World War II. 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.
Description
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 ten thousand other Japanese Americans. Along with searchlight towers and armed guards, Manzanar ludicrously featured cheeleaders, Boy Scouts, sock hops, baton twirling lessons, and dance band called The Jive Bombers, who would play any popular song except the nation's No. 1 hit: "Don't Fence Me In."
Number of Copies
2
