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In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

by Bette Bao Lord

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In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by her love for baseball.

Children's stories, AmericanSchoolsChinese AmericansJuvenile fictionHousehold MovingFictionMoving, household, fictionChinese americans, fictionSchools, fictionBrooklyn (new york, n.y.), fictionChildren's fictionImmigrants