Title: Peppe the Lamplighter
First published: 1993
Description: Peppe's father is upset when he learns that Peppe has taken a job lighting the gas street lamps in his New York City neighborhood.
Subjects: Fiction, Italian Americans, Brothers and sisters, Fathers and sons, Juvenile fiction, Missing children, Children of immigrants, Gas street lamps, Single-parent families, Siblings, Parental acceptance, Families, Streets, Father-son relationship, Lighting, Caldecott Medal, Lamplighters, Children's fiction, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Parent and child, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Italian americans, fiction, collectionID:caldecotthonor90, award:Caldecott_award, lexile:570, lexile_range:501-600, lexile_code:AD, age:min:4, age:max:8, grade:min:Preschool, grade:max:3
Places: New York (N.Y.)
LC classification: PZ7.B28563 Pe 1993