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.
Genres
- 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
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