Title: Brooklyn Bridge
First published: 2008
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.
Subjects: Teddy bears, Homeless persons, Families, Jews, Russian Americans, Juvenile fiction, Immigrants, Family life, Social classes, Coming of age, Fiction, History, Children's fiction, Homeless persons, fiction, Russian americans, fiction, Jews, united states, fiction, Teddy bears, fiction, Family life, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Russian Jews, Brooklyn (new york, n.y.), fiction
Places: United States, New York (State), Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.), New York, Brooklyn, N.Y.) Brooklyn (New York
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PZ7.H4364 Bro 2008