In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
by Bette Bao Lord and Marc Simont
Shirley Temple Wong sails from China to America with a heart full of dreams.Her... read more
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- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- Immigrant / Refugee
- Asian American
Year Published 1984
Word Count 26,776
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 730L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.6
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 229, 4.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Health
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Moving, Household--Fiction
- Children's stories, American
- Immigrants
- Schools
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - Asian American
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
- Schools--Fiction
- Chinese Americans--Fiction
- Baseball
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | New Experience
- Moving, Household
- Chinese Americans
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