Brooklyn Bridge
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Karen Hesse ; [illustrations by Chris Sheban]
Contributors: Sheban, Chris, ill
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Feiwel and Friends
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780312378868
Subjects: Teddy bears; Coming of age; Families; Jews; Russian Americans; Juvenile fiction; Immigrants; Family life; Social classes; Homeless persons; Fiction; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Map on lining papers.

A Junior Library Guild selection