In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
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. (from amazon.com)
: American History, Baseball, Black Character, Black History, Chinese Americans, Coming of Age, Friendship, Historical Fiction, Immigration, Multiculturalism, Prejudice, Race Relations
: Bette B. Lord
: Harper Trophy
: 1984
: 0064401758
: Late Elementary, Middle School
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