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by: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston
Amazon.com's Price: $6.99 Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.54727309794
EAN: 9780553272581
ISBN: 0553272586
Label: Bantam Books
Manufacturer: Bantam Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 146
Publication Date: November 01, 1974
Publisher: Bantam Books
Reading Level: Young Adult
Release Date: March 01, 1983
Sales Rank: 66943
Studio: Bantam Books
Editorial Review:
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 the nation'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.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great service
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
Rating:  - Great book
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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Rating:  - manzanar
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.
Rating: - Painful Personal Testimony on a Shameful American Act
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 ... Read More
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