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In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
Bette Bao Lord (1984)
A girl goes straight from China to Brooklyn in 1947, with no stops in between to learn how to speak english or play baseball... autobiographical, told sweetly but not too cute, I had a real sense of the lonliness and lost-ness of the girl thrust into a strange new culture...
connections: ESL, Bat 6
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