Grade 3–6—Ten-year-old Bandit is excited when her grandfather
announces to the family that she will be going with her mother to
join her father in America. She must leave her clan and the only
life she has known in China, but she is sure that moving to America
will be an adventure. To celebrate, she chooses a new name—Shirley
Temple Wong. Life in America is not easy because everything is new
and Shirley doesn''t speak English. She is ignored by her classmates
until she gains the respect of
內容簡介:
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.
關於作者:
Bette Bao Lord has based this story largely on the days when
she herself was a newcomer to America. She is the author of Spring
Moon, nominated for the American Book Award for First Novel, and
Eighth Moon.