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.
language: English
title: Farewell to Manzanar
titlecomplete: Farewell to Manzanar
genres: Historical, History, School, Classics, Biography, Memoir, World War II, War, Biography Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 17110
places: California, Manzanar Relocation Camp, Owens Valley, California, Manzanar, California, Independence
publisher: Prentice Hall (Higher Education Division, Pearson Education)