A timeless classic that will enchant readers who love Jennifer L. Holm and Thanhha Lai, about an immigrant girl inspired by the sport she loves to find her own home team—and to break down any barriers that stand in her way. 
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 happens: baseball! It's 1947, and Jackie Robinson, star of the Brooklyn Dodgers, is a superstar. Suddenly Shirley is playing stickball with her class and following Jackie as he leads the Brooklyn Dodgers to victory after victory.
With her hero smashing assumptions and records on the ball field, Shirley begins to feel that America is truly the land of opportunity—and perhaps has also become her real home.

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

Children's Books

Marc Simont

Bette Bao Lord

Humor

Harpercollins

In The Year Of The Boar And Jackie Robinson

HARPER/TROPHY

Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

Literature & Fiction

Scholastic Professional Books

In the Year of the Boar

Dell Publishing

Exploring Realistic Fiction (Literture & Writing)

Lael Littke

Jayne Pettit

scholastic

Brought together by their mutual patriotism in 1932 China, Steel Hope, Mountain Pine, and Firecrackers form a pact to defend their country, but the Communist Revolution takes them in very different directions and tests their loyalties. Reprint. NYT.

The Middle Heart

Contemporary

Bt Bound

"Chinese go through life wearing masks: the ones that tradition decrees; the ones that society decrees; and, since Liberation, the ones that the Party decrees." LEGACIES is the testament of a woman who is at once profoundly a daughter of her ancestral China and equally a child of America. Speakers who are identified only by tags like "actress," "joker" or "peasant" share their feelings and memories with her. We see a surreal society where one day's solid ground is the next day's quicksand. Only the astonishing Chinese could have produced it...or borne it! "Bette Bao Lord's stunning collection of oral histories is the work of an expert storyteller...portraits that get to the essence of what it means to be Chinese in our time." (The New York Times)

Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic

History

Asia

BOOKS-ON-TAPE, INC.

Diane Books Publishing Company

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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Schools & Teaching

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