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    In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

    By Bette Bao Lord and Marc Simont

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    A timeless classic that will enchant readers who love Jennifer L. Holm and Thanhhà Lại, about an immigrant girl inspired by the sport she loves to find her own home team—and to break down any barriers that stand in her way. 

    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 happens: baseball! It's 1947, and Jackie Robinson, star of the Brooklyn Dodgers, is a superstar. Suddenly Shirley is playing stickball with her class and following Jackie as he leads the Brooklyn Dodgers to victory after victory.

    With her hero smashing assumptions and records on the ball field, Shirley begins to feel that America is truly the land of opportunity—and perhaps has also become her real home.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateApr 2, 2019
    ISBN9780062857361
    Author

    Bette Bao Lord

    Bette Bao Lord based her acclaimed middle grade novel In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson largely on the days when she herself was a newcomer to the United States. She is also the author of Spring Moon, nominated for the American Book Award for First Novel, and Eighth Moon.

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    • 5/5
      it was okay not the best it is still okay
    • 3/5
      A cute read! A little girl from China tries to learn about life in her new country, the United States, while keeping the traditions and memories of her old country, in the year of the Boar, 1947. It’s a good story! My issue with the book was that I was expecting more about Jackie Robinson, based on the title. He’s in here, but as just a part of Shirley Temple Wong’s new life. I wanted more! But if you’re looking for a good story about being in a new country, this will do!
    • 5/5
      I loved how this story was told through the viewpoint of a young Chinese immigrant. It gave me a better understanding of how someone might feel moving to new country with a completely different language and culture. Shirley’s adjustment was often humorous, making this a fun book to read. I also liked that the book explained some of Chinese culture. When Shirley’s family learned that she would be moving to America, Shirley desperately wanted to know what was going on but knew she could not ask because it is not appropriate for children to ask questions in China. The message of this book is learning to adjust to new environments.
    • 3/5
      1947 is the year of the boar in the Chinese calendar, and it's the year when 10 year-old Sixth Cousin and her mother leave Chungking to reunite with her father in their new Brooklyn home. Taking the name of Shirley Temple Wong to better fit in, she doesn't speak English and is smaller than her new classmates. All her attempts to make friends fail until she discovers baseball and the new star of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Jackie Robinson.Though it's a children's book, this is a good story about the difficulties of transitioning between cultures. We meet Shirley first in her very traditional extended Chinese home, where every member of the family is aware of the hierarchy, then see her try to figure out a place that has so little structure. It's based on the author's own arrival in America
    • 4/5
      This is a very good book but it's not extremly good, the things I liked about this book were how the author used ways of describing the scene or the person of a part, like when an old piano teacher takes out her teeth and makes her talk and sound weird. I also like how when your done reading you feel like there is more to the book. In all the book was great but not the best I ever read.
    • 2/5
      This is the story of a ten year old girl that grew up in China with a whole clan of family around her which was the custom. She then moves to America with her mother. They go there to live with her father who went before them. This story starts by introducing the chinese clan members and their customs used at New Year. They are celebrating the year of the boar. She leaves for America shortly after that celebration. She is called Sixth cousin or bandit at this home. At the celebration her Grandfather tells everyone that she can't go to America with such a name. from that time forward she is her American name: Shirley Temple Wong.The story is told in her point of view. it tells of her struggles of new new world like the fact that she doesn't speak English. Or how the people looked different like the woman with no eyebrows. I think that Lord did a good job helping you visualize the things of China with the things of Brooklyn,NY. It was the year of the boar; it was the year of Jackie Robinson. I am not sure if I would recommend this book. I thought it had good detail but had a hard time reading it.
    • 4/5
      Charming and sweet, Shirley Temple Wong wins the readers' hearts in the first chapter when she suggests that her grandfather give her the American name of Uncle Sam. She receives Shirley Temple instead and sets sail for her new home in New York, where she discovers a land of new wonders: washing machines, refrigerators, skyscrapers, and a new language that sounds like "gurgling water." Small moments throughout the story continuously endear Shirley to the reader. While trying to imitate winking, her teacher mistakes her constant blinking for an eyesight problem, and when she asks her teacher about the girl Jackie Robinson, the reader laughs with the class, enjoying a moment that is only embarrassing on the surface. For once Shirley learns about Jackie Robinson, she discovers that the class had complimented her baseball skills. Delightfully entertaining and meaningful.Classroom uses: topics for discussion include loneliness, identity, customs, friendship, & opportunity