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Why Is Farewell To Manzanar Banned

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Why does the school board ban educational books? Not a lot of people know that during WWII Japanese Americans were held in camps after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor taking away Farewell to Manzanar is not going to help. Without Farewell to Manzanar kids at Larkspur middle school will still be without that knowledge; This book can also change the way people look at certain things.

Farewell To Manzanar should not be banned because it will take knowledge away from people. In chapter two Jeanne Wakatsuki and her family were taken to camps after the pearl harbor bombing because they were Japanese. “ Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from her home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp-with 10,000 other

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