Brooklyn Bridge, a novel, by Karen Hesse
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Label
Brooklyn Bridge, a novel, by Karen Hesse
Language
eng
Illustrations
mapsillustrations
Index
no index present
resource.interestAgeLevel
010-014
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Brooklyn Bridge
Responsibility statement
by Karen Hesse
Sub title
a novel
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
Target audience
adolescent
Classification
Creator
Subject
- Family life -- New York (State) -- Brooklyn -- Fiction
- Russian Americans -- Fiction
- Immigrants -- Fiction
- Coming of age -- Fiction
- Immigrants -- Juvenile fiction
- Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
- Social classes -- Fiction
- Homeless persons -- Fiction
- Russian Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Homeless persons -- Juvenile fiction
- Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction
- Teddy bears -- Fiction
- Jews -- United States -- Juvenile fiction
- Social classes -- Juvenile fiction
- Jews -- United States -- Fiction
- Family -- New York (State) -- Brooklyn -- Juvenile fiction
- Teddy bears -- Juvenile fiction
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Creator1
- Subject19
- Family life -- New York (State) -- Brooklyn -- Fiction
- Russian Americans -- Fiction
- Immigrants -- Fiction
- Coming of age -- Fiction
- Immigrants -- Juvenile fiction
- Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
- Social classes -- Fiction
- Homeless persons -- Fiction
- Russian Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Homeless persons -- Juvenile fiction
- Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction
- Teddy bears -- Fiction
- Jews -- United States -- Juvenile fiction
- Social classes -- Juvenile fiction
- Jews -- United States -- Fiction
- Family -- New York (State) -- Brooklyn -- Juvenile fiction
- Teddy bears -- Juvenile fiction
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction