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In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson - 'Bette Bao Lord', 'Marc Simont'
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
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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... show more
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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780064401753 (0064401758)
ASIN: 0064401758
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
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An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge
An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge rated it
3.0 In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
I enjoyed each of the chapters individually but taken as a whole the story leaves something to be desired. I know it's a short book but Bao could have fit more into the pages than she does. I would have traded some of the periphery stories (babysitting the triplets and the bits about the parrot) for...
melindaoliverhoover
melindaoliverhoover rated it
Listened to this book as part of my son's history. Listening to a book counts as reading doesn't it? Hehe.
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