Last semester I took a children's literature class, and really enjoyed it. One of the resources our professor gave us was a book review sheet to use for every book we read. As I come across a book that I enjoy, I'll post my review of it, and hopefully it will be helpful for other teachers.
Author: Bette Bao Lord
Title: In the year of the boar and Jackie Robinson
Illustrator: Marc Simont
Publisher: Harper Trophy
Publishing year: 1984
number of pages: 169
genre: Historical fiction
narrative text or informative text? narrative
Summary: A Chinese girl moves to New York, experiences culture shock and then learns about baseball-her new favorite sport
My opinion of the book: Very true to the experience of going from one's native culture to another. A good book to use when discussing the experience of immigrants, and hopefully help the native American students be more understanding.
Elements of literature: characterization
Theme/Lesson learned in this book: Adjusting to a new culture is hard and often a time of lonliness.
Thematic Unit topics: baseball, Chinese American, culture shock, immigrants, Jackie Robinson
possible objections to this book: Seems every time race or ethnicity is a heavy theme, people tend to point fingers and call 'racist'.
You can buy this book on Amazon.
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