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In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

Written by Betty Bao Lord

A Chinese girl immigrates to New York in 1947 and assimilates into a strange culture of tough kids, stickball, and the Brooklyn Dodgers. "Poignant but outrageously humorous."—SLJ

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Age Range 8 - 12 years
Copyright Year
1984
Publisher
Scholastic
Grade Level 5th - 6th
ISBN
9780439079594
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