Sweet America
Subtitle: an immigrant's story
By: Steven Kroll.
Series: Jamestown's American portraits
Publisher: Jamestown Publishers
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Lincolnwood, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
Subjects: Riis, Jacob A. 1849-1914 -- Fiction.; Italian Americans -- Juvenile fiction.; Italian Americans -- Fiction.; Immigrants -- Fiction.; Gangs -- Fiction.; Conduct of life -- Fiction.; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1865-1898 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
Description: In 1889, after he and his family emigrate from Italy to New York City, fourteen-year-old Tony tries to adjust to becoming an American, while avoiding an Irish gang and befriending photographer and social reformer Jacob Riis.