Title: Sweet America
First published: February 12, 2001
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.
Subjects: Conduct of life, Gangs, Juvenile fiction, Immigrants, Fiction, Italian Americans, History, Américains d'origine italienne, Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
Places: New York (N.Y.)
People: Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914)
Time periods: 1865-1898