Shirley Temple Wong sails from China to America with a heartfull of dreams.Her new home is Brooklyn, New York. America isindeed a land full of wonders, but Shirley doesn't know anyEnglish, so it's hard to make friends. Then amiracle-baseball-happens. It is 1947, and Jackie Robinson, star ofthe Brooklyn Dodgers, is everyone's hero. Jackie Robinson isproving that a black man, the grandson of a slave, can make adifference in America and for Shirley as well, on the ball fieldand off, America becomes the land of opportunity.
【作者简介】
Bette Bao Lord has based this story largely on the days whenshe herself was a newcomer to America. She is the author of SpringMoon, nominated for the American Book Award for First Novel, andEighth Moon.
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