num_pages: 145
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 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 "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.
language: English
title: Farewell to Manzanar
titlecomplete: Farewell to Manzanar
genres: Historical, Biography, War, Memoir, Nonfiction, School, Classics, Biography Memoir, History, World War II
ratings_count: 17113
places: California, Manzanar, California, Manzanar Relocation Camp, Owens Valley, California, Independence
publisher: Bantam