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Brooklyn Bridge : a novel / by Karen Hesse ; [illustrations by Chris Sheban].

Author: Hesse, Karen.

Edition Statement:1st ed.

Imprint:New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2008.

Description229 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.

Note:Map on lining papers.

Note: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.
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Author:
Hesse, Karen.
Subject:
Families -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile fiction.
Teddy bears -- Juvenile fiction.
Social classes -- Juvenile fiction.
Homeless persons -- Juvenile fiction.
Immigrants -- Juvenile fiction.
Russian Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
Jews -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Index Term - Genre/Form
Bildungsromans.
Contributor
Sheban, Chris, ill.