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In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson / Bette Bao Lord ; illustrations by Marc Simont.

by Lord, Bette.

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New York, N.Y. : HarperTrophy, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2003.

Chinese Americans -- Juvenile fiction.

Moving, Household -- Juvenile fiction.

Schools -- Juvenile fiction.

0064401758 (paperback)

9780064401753 (paperback)

0808575996 (Turtleback books)

170 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Rev. Harper Trophy ed.

January: Chinese New Year -- February: A Journey of Ten Thousand Miles -- March: China's Little Ambassador -- April: A Hungry Ghost -- May: Two Black Eyes and Wispy Whiskers -- June: I Pledge a Lesson to the Frog -- July: Toscanini Takes a Walk -- August: Monsters -- September: Secrets -- October: The World Series -- November: Moon Cakes Without Grandfather -- December: A Star-Spangled Christmas.

In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by her love for baseball. 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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