On Episode 183, Alli and her guest get reacquainted with Shirley Temple Wong, the spunky young heroine from Bette Bao Lord’s In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. Shirley’s experience as a Chinese-American immigrant in 1947 inspires conversations about identity, language, race, the American dream, the pressures placed on marginalized communities, and (of course) baseball.

Traci Chee is the best-selling and award-winning author of books for young people, including The Reader, We Are Not Free, and most recently, A Thousand Steps Into Night. Follow her on Instagram (@tracicheeauthor) and Twitter (@tracichee).

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