by Karen Hesse · SQUARE FISH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780312674281
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«Brooklyn Bridge» is the historical young adult novel by Karen Hesse, published by Square Fish in paperback (256 pages, in English).
In the summer of 1903, in Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom dreams of visiting the Coney Island amusement park. Since his parents, Russian immigrants, invented the teddy bear, his life has turned upside down: he works, argues with his family, falls in love, and hopes his luck doesn't run out.
The work received the Sydney Taylor Book Award and was named Bank Street's Best Children's Book of the Year 2009.
Recommended for readers aged 10 to 14, interested in historical fiction and stories of immigration.
Karen S. Hesse is an American author of children's literature and literature for young adults, often with historical settings. She received the Newbery Medal for Out of the Dust (1997).
