Brooklyn Bridge

Description:

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.

subjects: Teddy bears,  Homeless persons,  Families,  Jews,  Russian Americans,  Juvenile fiction,  Immigrants,  Family life,  Social classes,  Coming of age,  Fiction,  History,  Children's fiction,  Homeless persons, fiction,  Russian americans, fiction,  Jews, united states, fiction,  Teddy bears, fiction,  Family life, fiction,  New york (n.y.), fiction,  Russian Jews,  Brooklyn (new york, n.y.), fiction

Places: United States,  New York (State),  Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.),  New York,  Brooklyn,  N.Y.) Brooklyn (New York

Times: 20th century