Books : Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.54727309794
EAN num: 9780553272581
ISBN number: 0553272586
Label: Bantam Books
Manufacturer: Bantam Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 146
Printing Date: November 01, 1974
Publishing house: Bantam Books
Age index: Young Adult
Release Date: March 01, 1983
Sale Popularity Level: 1935
Studio: Bantam Books
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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 endeavor 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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The U.S. government's internment of 120,000 Asian Americans in the wake of the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 is a thorny era that many Americans have chosen to ignore. Farewell to Manzanar is a factual narrative by Jeanne Toyo Wakatsuki and James D. Houston that follows Jeanne, her family, and 30,000 other Asian Americans along a three-decade-long journey of silent denial and racial degradation.
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Farewell to Manzanar is not a book I will ever forget. Although many years have passed since I very first read this book, the story of the Japanese-American families sent to an internment camp still resonates. It's a beautifully written memoir of an egregious wrong.
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Wow! This is everything I thought it would be and much more! Everything I could think of for my students is in this, plus things I didn't even think would be in it! Thank you!
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This book is required reading for my daughters freshman high school English course. Amazon didnt carry the 'cliffnotes' yet I found another seller through Amazon; of course, then the books were shipped separately.
Excellent topic considering our local Japanese-American history during WWII.
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and my children like it. It is a great book to read with your children on one of the internment camps during wwII in America. The very first person account is wonderful. I don't know why so many kids thought it was boring. No, there are no bombs going off, a lot of gun shooting, or killing with blood and guts but it is still a great book.
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i read this book when i was about 11 and purchased it for my 12 yr old son last month. he loved it as much as i did. loves to read, loves world war ii history and had no idea that the u s had holding camps for u s citizens of japanese descent. started a diolog with his g'pa, s f born and bred, about japanese americans he'd known as a child who were imprisoned. should be required reading for all
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