Author(s): Caroline Nakajima
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 48
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
Language: English
Date Published: 1992-10-01
Dimensions: 210.82 x 274.32 x 5.08mm
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Edition: Teacher's Guide ed.
Illustrations: Illustrations, unspecified

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 Dodgers, is everyone's hero. Jackie Robinson is proving that a black man, the grandson of a slave, can make a difference in America. And for Shirley as well, on the ball field and off, America becomes the land of opportunity.