@article{345677, author = {Lord, Bette. and Simont, Marc,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/345677}, title = {In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson /}, publisher = {Harper & Row,}, abstract = {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.}, recid = {345677}, pages = {169 p. :}, address = {New York, N.Y. :}, year = {1984}, }