Brooklyn Bridge : a novel

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Label

Brooklyn Bridge : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

by Karen Hesse ; [illustrations by Chris Sheban]

Creator

• Hesse, Karen

Contributor

• Sheban, Chris

Illustrator

• Sheban, Chris

Subject

• Russian Americans -- Fiction
• Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
• Families -- New York (State) | New York -- Juvenile fiction
• Homeless persons -- Fiction
• Coming of age -- Fiction
• Immigrants -- Fiction
• Social classes -- Fiction
• Teddy bears -- Fiction
• Family life -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• Homeless persons -- Juvenile fiction
• Teddy bears -- Juvenile fiction
• Jews -- United States -- Juvenile fiction
• Social classes -- Juvenile fiction
• Immigrants -- Juvenile fiction
• Jews -- United States -- Fiction
• Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
• Russian Americans -- Juvenile fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Juvenile fiction

Language

eng

Summary

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

Awards note

A Junior Library Guild selection

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

no index present

LC call number

PZ7.H4364

LC item number

Bro 2008

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adolescent