Author: Bette Bao Lord Year: 1984 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Fiction, Children, Young adult
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ISBNs: 9780064401753 0064401758 |
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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.
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