Farewell to Manzanar
  • Published:
    May-2002
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    Historical
  • Pages:
    240
  • Age Level:
    12 & up
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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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EDITIONS
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    •  
    • Feb-2012
    • Ember
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0307976076
    • ISBN13: 9780307976079
    •  
    • Feb-2012
    • Turtleback Books
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0606324127
    • ISBN13: 9780606324120
    • Library Binding
    •  
    • Jan-2013
    • Perfection Learning
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1613833792
    • ISBN13: 9781613833797
    • Library Binding
    •  
    • May-2002
    • Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
    • eBook (Kindle)



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