| | Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment |  | Author: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  226 reviews
Sales Rank: 1849600
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 177
ISBN: 0913374040
EAN: 9780913374047
ASIN: 0913374040
Publication Date: January 1973
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: 1973 edition. First Printing stated. Hardcover book in good condition. Ex-library. Dustjacket and vinyl cover.
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Product 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 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 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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 Great service September 15, 2008
I bought this book for my sister so I don't know how it is but it came in good condition it took a long time to arrive though alot longer than I thought we went to the beach and back before the book got here
 Great book August 25, 2008
The book was very well written and you could actually put yourself in some of the incidents that happened through her life. It is very hard to belief that this discrimination happened in our country less that 75 years ago. Great read.
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 manzanar July 26, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
my 14 year old daughter, who is a reading fanatic, had to read this book for english over the summer. she said the book was well written but was not entertaining.
Painful Personal Testimony on a Shameful American Act July 26, 2008
I could not believe there were one-star reviews until I read them and saw they were written by kids. Obviously part of their 8th grade class assignment was to write a review of the book for Amazon.com. This book is really not for junior-high level kids, as they will find it boring. And unless they are familiar with Asian-American culture or know somebody who is Asian-American, it will be difficult for them to relate to this book at all. One kid reviewer said the book might have been better if there was violence! Those kids would have been better off watching the Made-For-TV movie that was based on the book.
It is of great interest to those wanting to learn about this shameful part of American history, and for those wanting to learn about Asian American history. As a mother of a half-Asian son, this will definitely be a book he needs to read. I applaud Jean Wakasuki-Houston for writing this book, and to me, it rates up there as a must-read with "The Diary of Anne Frank." Both are important testimonies to the horrors and racism of WWII, and hopefully future generations can learn from them.
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