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Name: Farewell to Manzanar

Authors: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston
Year: 1972
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Genres/categories: Non Fiction, History, Biographies, Classic, War/Military

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9780553272581
0553272586
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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