
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
Danny Says
I have become fascinated with anything associated with Jackie Robinson, and I am so pleased to have come across this book. It is a funny and moving story about an immigrant girl from China who moves to Brooklyn in 1947 and manages to fit in when she realizes that if a black man and the grandson of a slave can make it in America, everyone has an opportunity to succeed. I love this book, and it won a ton of awards when it was published in the mid-1980s.