Title: Mrs. Kaputnik's pool hall and matzo ball emporium
Description: Shoshi, her brother Moshe, and their pet dragon Snigger travel from Russia to New York City to start a new life, where they find hardship working in a failing restaurant in a neighborhood run by the gangster Nick the Stick.
Subjects: History, Jews, Juvenile fiction, Immigrants, Dragons, Fiction, Children's fiction, Jews, fiction, Dragons, fiction, New york (n.y.), history, fiction
Places: New York (State), New York (N.Y.), New York
Time periods: 1898-1951