num_pages: 169
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: In The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
titlecomplete: In The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
characters: Jackie Robinson
genres: Fiction, Young Adult, Sports, Childrens, Historical, Read For School, Historical Fiction, Baseball, Middle Grade, School
ratings_count: 6254
places: New York City, New York, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, New York (State), China, Chinatown, New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Intermediate
publisher: Scholastic