Name: Farewell to Manzanar : a True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
Author: Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki
ISBN: [978-1-32874-211-7,1-32874-211-3]

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Farewell to Manzanar : a True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment

Author: Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki

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Follett Number: 1148GH7
Audience: Young Adult
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002
Format: xiv, 188 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN-13: 978-1-32874-211-7
ISBN-10: 1-32874-211-3
Dewey: 940.53
Classifications: Biography; Nonfiction

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Biographies

Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki

Japanese Americans Biography

Manzanar War Relocation Center

World War, 1939-1945 California Prisoners and Prisons

"Originally published in the United States by Houghton Mifflin, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1973"--Title page verso. Japanese American Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston shares the story of her family's experiences living at the Manzanar internment camp during World War II, and discusses the influences of those early years in forced detention on the rest of her life.

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During World War II a community called Manzanar was created in the high mountain desert country of California. Its purpose was to house thousands of Japanese Americans. Among them was the Wakatsuki family, who were ordered to leave their fishing business in Long Beach and take with them only the belongings they could carry. Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, who was seven years old when she arrived at Manzanar in 1942, recalls life in the camp through the eyes of the child she was. First published in 1973, this new edition of the classic memoir of a devastating Japanese American experience includes an inspiring afterword by the authors.

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