Did you make a resolution to read more in 2012? Would you like a fun way to keep track of the books you read this year? Announcing the 2012:
50 Book Challenge...there might possibly (maybe) be a prize or two at the end -- though reading
is its own reward. The Challenge begins January 16, 2012.
As you turn the ignition on the 50 Book Challenge, you may want to consider reading the companion book for the Library's 2012 Community Read; a biography from the teen collection: Farewell
to Manzanar, by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston.
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment, by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
and James D. Houston, 1973. This is a short, engaging biography about a young girl and her family that were sent to a Japanese internment camp in California during the 1940s. Houston provides an opportunity to understand what it was like to live in the camp; coping with physical deprivations, and psychological difficulties within her family. It tells the story of what happened before the family was forced to go to Manzanar, the years of living in the camp, and what happened after people were allowed to leave. Farewell lets one look in to a murky corner of American history. I gave it 4 stars. Recommend!
