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In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
by Lord, Bette Bao
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060240032
- ISBN 13
- 9780060240035
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
Harper & Row, NY, 1984,, 1984. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Marc Simont. Octavo, hardcover, VG in green cloth in VG yellow and green pictoril dj, 6th Revised Edition 169 pp. Shirley sees America as a land of wonders. She has no friends until a miracle happens...By author of "Spring Moon".
Synopsis
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson is a book by author Bette Bao Lord. It tells the story of a Chinese girl, Shirley Temple Wong, who must adjust to her life in the USA after receiving a letter from her father telling her that they are moving to Brooklyn. Shirley is placed in P.S. 8's 5th grade class. Shirley is bullied by a girl in her class named Mabel. One day after receiving a black eye from Mabel something turns Mabel and the two become friends.
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Details
- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8205
- Title
- In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
- Author
- Lord, Bette Bao
- Illustrator
- Marc Simont
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0060240032
- ISBN 13
- 9780060240035
- Publisher
- Harper & Row, NY, 1984,
- Place of Publication
- Ny
- Date Published
- 1984
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...