Brooklyn Bridge
By: Karen Hesse.
Publisher: Feiwel and Friends
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780312378868
Subjects: Coming of age -- Fiction; Family life -- New York (State) -- Brooklyn -- 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
Genres: Fiction.
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.