num_pages: 48
description: 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.
language: English
title: A Guide for Using In the Year of the Boar & Jackie Robinson in the Classroom
titlecomplete: A Guide for Using In the Year of the Boar & Jackie Robinson in the Classroom (Literature Units)
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Teacher Created Resources