Farewell To Manzanar: Book Review

Book Review: Farewell to Manzanar
By: Trent Smith

Farewell to Manzanar, by Jeanne Wakatsuki and James D. Houston, is based on a real event book during World War II. It is a fantastic book about a seven year old girl named Jeanne Wakatsuki that was captured and sent to Manzanar because of the war. She was then sent to an interment camp, with the rest of her family by her side. She shows the adventures that she had, and what her family went through in great details to survive and doesn't miss one important fact about it. She describes the conditions of the camp well, and you would be surprised on some of the conditions of the camp that she went through. She tells the facts about how she made the best of the situation in order to get through the internment camp, but she then sees the suffering that her parents have to experience in order to stay alive. She also explains the effects that the experience of being in an interment camp had on her family.
Her dads name is Ko Wakatsuki, who was taken away for a year from his family and then loses his parental responsibilities. Her mother helped Jeanne get through the internment camp and was supportive to her. She gave her company and almost did everything with her. She also had a brother named Woody, who was the oldest son. He is a hard worker and an honest child. He is like another father to Jeanne.
When she goes to school she explains the exact words people said to her when she went to school. At the time people were pretty racist to her because she was Japanese, so you can imagine the hurtful words that her classmates spoke to her. The book basically talks about the adventures, ups, downs, friends she made, struggles and successes she had during the time when she was in the camp.
All in all I think this book is a fantastic book to read because it explains what really happened when she was in the internment camp. It not only talks about the conditions of the camp, it also explains the conditions of her family and the tragedies she had to face.
What do you think a seven year old girl in an interment camp would do? Well if you're curious to know the answer to that question, the answer lye’s within the pages of this book. The book will tell everything that you need to know. I recommend this book to 6th grade and up because there are some tricky words in the book that are hard to understand.