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Farewell to Manzanar, by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston is the true story of a Japanese-American family's detention in California's Manzanar internment camp during World War II. Jeanne was seven when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and created the calamity that forced about 110,000 Japanese Americans to go away from their homes. She remembers the pressure of camp life—they had no way of dignity and privacy, the loss of authority, and the pressure to sign loyalty oaths. She also tells what she took away from Manzanar after it was closed—a feeling of shame and determination to be accepted as an American. I. Pearl Harbor bombe