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..
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