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⚡️Book Title : Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
⚡Book Author : Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
⚡Page : 203 pages
⚡Published 1995 by Dell (first published 1972)
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment - Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment campwith 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 thenation'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 detentionand of a native-born American child who discovered what it was like to grow up behind barbed wire in the United States.
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment campwith 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 thenation'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 detentionand 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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