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In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

Bette Bao Lord

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Why we're reading this: An autobiographical middle grade novel based on the author's experiences emigrating to the US in 1946 fro…more
[close] An autobiographical middle grade novel based on the author's experiences emigrating to the US in 1946 from China. Very good.

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Dec 04, 2017 Melissa rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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I'd been meaning to re-read In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson for a while - last read in 5th grade, so it's been a minute - but never quite got around to it. But I needed a book to fill my last task for the Book Riot Read Harder challenge and this was available on audio at the library :)

Re-reading as an adult, the narrative does feel heavy-handed at times, but almost 30 extra years of life experience brings out a lot of details I missed. Such as Shirley being just thrown into a fifth g ...more

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