Brooklyn Bridge
by Karen Hesse, Fred Berman · 2008
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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.
Teddy bearsHomeless personsFamiliesJewsRussian AmericansJuvenile fictionImmigrantsFamily lifeSocial classesComing of ageFictionHistory