Bette Lord
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English
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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. 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...
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English
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A timeless classic that will enchant readers who love Jennifer L. Holm and Thanhhà Lại, about an immigrant girl inspired by the sport she loves to find her own home team-and to break down any barriers that stand in her way.
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....
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1996
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English
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A historical novel on China in the form of a love triangle. It begins in the 1930s when three children make a vow of brotherhood. One is the son of a noble, the second a servant boy, the third a grave digger's daughter with whom the boys will fall in love. The novel follows their respective fortunes during the Communist Revolution--prison, power, prison--at once competing and helping each other. By the author of Spring Moon.