In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
By Bette Bao Lord; Marc Simont (Illustrator)
(HarperCollins, Paperback, 9780064401753, 176pp.)
Publication Date: October 1986
Other Editions of This Title: Library Binding, Prebound, , Compact Disc
Categories: Humorous Stories, People & Places - United States - Asian American, Social Issues - New Experience
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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 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.
Bette Bao Lord has based this story largely on the days when she herself was a newcomer to America. She is the author of Spring Moon, nominated for the American Book Award for First Novel, and Eighth Moon.
“Poignant but outrageously humorous.”
-School Library Journal
“Lord writes with a warm authenticity and sparkling humor.”
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