Farewell to Manzanar

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 ten thousand 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 No. 1 hit: "Don't Fence Me In."Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki is the author of 'Farewell to Manzanar', published 1974 under ISBN 9780553272581 and ISBN 0553272586.