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Author:
Lord, Bette.
Title:
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson / Bette Bao Lord ; illustrations by Marc Simont.
Edition:
1st HarperTrophy ed.
Publisher:
HarperTrophy,
Copyright Date:
1986, c1984
Description:
170 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Subject:
Chinese Americans--Fiction.
Moving, Household--Fiction.
Schools--Fiction.
Chinese Americans--Fiction.
Moving--Fiction.
School stories
Other Authors:
Simont, Marc, ill.
Notes:
Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1984.
Summary:
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 leaves her homeland to live in Brooklyn but has great difficulty in adjusting to life in America until she discovers baseball
ISBN:
9780064401753
0064401758 (pbk.)
LCCN:
bl98003279
Locations:
GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)
CMPE792 -- Drake Community Library (Grinnell)

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