A review by audreysides
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord

3.0

I honestly had really bad expectations of this book. I got assinged to it by school, so I had to read it. It actually wasn't that bad. This book is about a young girl from China who moves to the United States with her mother to stay with the father. She speaks absolutely no English, Knows nobody but her father, and has to change her name into an english name. Since she doesen't know any better, her new name becomes Shirley Temple. Full name: Shirley Temple Wong. So she goes to Brooklyn. When she first gets there, everything is strange and new and odd to her, she eventually learns to like things and make friends. Like Senora and Toscanini downstairs, Emily and Mabel from school, and she finds a great passion for baseball (Dodgers) too.