In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
Bette Bao Lord
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Product Info
ISBN: 9.78006E+12
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication Date: 9/25/86
Binding: Paperback
Age Range: -12
Grade Range: 3-7
Series: ,
Pages:
Language: English
BISAC: Juvenile Fiction, Social Themes, New Experience, Asian American & Pacific Islander, Humorous Stories, Sports & Recreation, Baseball & Softball, African American & Black, General, Activity Books, Fantasy, Art, Diversity & Multicultural, Readers, and Chapter Books
Related Subjects: Schools, Moving, Household, and Chinese Americans
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Shirley Temple Wong sails from China to America with a heart full of dreams. Her new home is Brooklyn, New York. America is indeed a land full of wonders, but Shirley doesn't know any English, so it's hard to make friends. Then a miracle - baseball - happens. It is 1947, and Jackie Robinson, star of the Brooklyn Dodgers, is everyone's hero. Jackie Robinson is proving that a black man, the grandson of a slave, can make a difference in America. And for Shirley as well, on the ball field and off, America becomes the land of opportunity.