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Call# |
800-L |
Summary |
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 |
Object Name |
Book |
Author |
Lord, Bette Bao |
Subjects |
Children's stories, American. Chinese Americans--Fiction. Moving, Household--Fiction. Schools--Fiction. |
Title |
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson |
Published Date |
1984 |
Physical Description |
169 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
Catalog Number |
2014.007.066 |
Accession number |
2014.007 |
Publisher |
Harper & Row |
Collection |
Public Affairs Television |
Year Range from |
1984 |
Year Range to |
1984 |