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Farewell to Manzanar
Contributor(s): Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki (Author), Houston, James D. (Illustrator), Houston, James D. (Author)

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ISBN: 1328742113     ISBN-13: 9781328742117
Publisher: Clarion Books
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
- Young Adult Nonfiction | People & Places - United States - Asian American
- Young Adult Nonfiction | History - United States - 20th Century
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2002727748
Age Level: 8-12
Grade Level: 3-7
Lexile Measure: 1040(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.6" W x 8.2" L (0.42 lbs) 224 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Real Life Heroes
Features: Ikids, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 363
Reading Level: 6.7   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 7.0
 
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Publisher Description:
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.

Contributor Bio(s): Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki: - Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston was born in Inglewood, California, in 1934. She studied sociology and journalism at San Jose State University, where she met her husband and cowriter of her memoir Farewell to Manzanar, James D. Houston. For their teleplay for the NBC television drama based on Farewell to Manzanar, they received the prestigious Humanitas Prize. Jeanne's widely anthologized essays and short stories were first collected in Beyond Manzanar: Views of Asian American Womanhood. Her works have earned numerous honors, including a United States-Japan Cultural Exchange Fellowship; a Rockefeller Foundation residence at Bellagio, Italy; and a 1984 Wonder Woman Award, given to women over forty who have made outstanding achievements in pursuit of truth and positive social change.
Houston, James D.: -

James D. Houston (1933-2009) was the author of several novels and nonfiction works exploring the history and cultures of the western United States and the Asia/Pacific region. His works include Snow Mountain Passage, Continental Drift, In the Ring of Fire: A Pacific Basin Journey, and The Last Paradise, which received a 1999 American Book Award for fiction. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, Jim received a National Endowment for the Arts writing grant, a Library of Congress Story Award, and traveled to Asia lecturing for the U.S.I.S. Arts America program.


 
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