In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

Children's stories, American. Chinese Americans -- Fiction. Moving, Household -- Fiction. Schools -- Fiction. Chinese Americans -- Juvenile fiction. Immigrants -- United States -- Juvenile fiction. Baseball stories. Moving, Household -- Juvenile fiction. Schools -- Juvenile fiction.

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.

Lord, Bette Bao

HarperCollins

1984

PZ7 .L8773 In

2003.500.2624