In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by her love for baseball.

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

Children's Books

Lord, Bette Bao

Geography & Cultures

HarperCollins, Publishers

A timeless classic that will enchant readers who love Jennifer L. Holm and Thanhha Lai, about an immigrant girl inspired by the sport she loves to find her own home team—and to break down any barriers that stand in her way. 
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 happens: baseball! It's 1947, and Jackie Robinson, star of the Brooklyn Dodgers, is a superstar. Suddenly Shirley is playing stickball with her class and following Jackie as he leads the Brooklyn Dodgers to victory after victory.
With her hero smashing assumptions and records on the ball field, Shirley begins to feel that America is truly the land of opportunity—and perhaps has also become her real home.

Literature & Fiction

Harpercollins

At a time of mystery and cruelty . . . in an ancient land of breathtaking beauty and exotic surprise . . . a courageous woman triumphs over her world's ultimate tragedy. Behind the garden walls of the House of Chang, pampered daughter Spring Moon is born into luxury and privilege. But the tempests of change sweep her into a new world - one of hardship, turmoil, and heartbreak, one that threatens to destroy her husband, her family, and her darkest secret love. Through a tumultuous lifetime, Spring Moon must cling to her honor, to the memory of a time gone by, and to a destiny, foretold at her birth, that has yet to be fulfilled.

Spring Moon: A Novel of China

United States

Harper-perennial

Five generations of a Mandarin family--from war-torn nineteenth century China to the present--are revealed through the adventures of Spring Moon, who experiences a long life of trouble, sacrifice, and joy

Spring Moon

Picnic Time

"Chinese go through life wearing masks: the ones that tradition decrees; the ones that society decrees; and, since Liberation, the ones that the Party decrees." LEGACIES is the testament of a woman who is at once profoundly a daughter of her ancestral China and equally a child of America. Speakers who are identified only by tags like "actress," "joker" or "peasant" share their feelings and memories with her. We see a surreal society where one day's solid ground is the next day's quicksand. Only the astonishing Chinese could have produced it...or borne it! "Bette Bao Lord's stunning collection of oral histories is the work of an expert storyteller...portraits that get to the essence of what it means to be Chinese in our time." (The New York Times)

Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Pan.

Interviewing the turbulent recent events in China with her own personal life story and those of family, friends, and acquaintances, the author creates an evocative portrait of China and its people

Legacies a Chinese Mosaic

KNOPF

Lord, Bette Bao, In The Year Of The Boar And Jackie Robinson

scholastic

Middle Heart: A Novel

Random House Publishing Group

"TRULY MOVING . . . BETTE BAO LORD IS AT HER STRONGEST." --The Boston Globe In 1932, as China shamefully kowtows under Japanese occupation, three unlikely companions are fatefully bound by their steadfast patriotism: Steel Hope, heir to a once-great aristocracy; Mountain Pine, his crippled, scholarly servant; and Firecrackers, a poor gravekeeper's daughter. In a youthful pact, they call themselves "Brothers of the Middle Heart," vowing to defend their country to the end. Yet as war and, later, the Communist Revolution ignite, cruel circumstances separate them. One becomes a political leader, one a writer, one an actress. But despite incessant historical upheaval, their lives continue to intertwine in poignant, often tragic, ways. Enmeshed in a love triangle, they will live to see their loyalty to one another tested again and again. Through these three richly drawn characters, Bette Bao Lord re-creates the stirring drama of twentieth-century China. In vivid, haunting prose she evokes the outrages that marred fifty years of the Chinese people's existence--and illuminates the remarkable resilience that defines them to this day.

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In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

Spring Moon: A Novel of China

Spring Moon

Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic

Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic

Legacies a Chinese Mosaic

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

Middle Heart: A Novel

Middle Heart: A Novel