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Brooklyn Bridge : a novel

Title
Brooklyn Bridge : a novel / by Karen Hesse.
Author
Hesse, Karen.
Publication
New York, NY : Feiwel and Friends, 2008.

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Description
229 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Summary
In 1903 Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom's life changes for the worse when his parents, Russian immigrants, invent the teddy bear and turn their apartment into a factory, while nearby the glitter of Coney Island contrasts with the dismal lives of children dwelling under the Brooklyn Bridge.
Subject
  • Families > New York (State) > New York > Fiction
  • Teddy bears > Fiction
  • Social classes > Fiction
  • Homeless persons > Fiction
  • Immigrants > Fiction
  • Russian Americans > Fiction
  • Jews > United States > Fiction
  • Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > History > 20th century > Fiction
Genre/Form
Bildungsromans.
Note
  • Maps on endpapers.
Awards (note)
  • A Junior Library Guild selection.
  • A Junior Library Guild selection
Call Number
J FIC H
ISBN
  • 9780312378868 (hardcover)
  • 0312378866 (hardcover)
LCCN
2008005624
OCLC
213451392
Author
Hesse, Karen.
Title
Brooklyn Bridge : a novel / by Karen Hesse.
Imprint
New York, NY : Feiwel and Friends, 2008.
Edition
1st ed.
Awards
A Junior Library Guild selection.
A Junior Library Guild selection
Research Call Number
J FIC H
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