In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
- ISBN-10
- 0060240032
- ISBN-13
- 9780060240035
- Pages
- 169
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1984
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Author
- Bette Lord
Description
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.
