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Brooklyn, Bugsy, and Me
Sam gets used to a new home and an old relative
In the summer of 1953, nine-year-old Sam and his mom move to Brooklyn to live with his grandfather. Mom has lost her job and has no prospects back home in West Virginia. So Sam leaves his friends and his fishing and his fabulous countryside and squeezes into Gramps's small, hot, noisy apartment with Mom -- and Dad (in an urn, where he's been since dying in the war). Right away, Sam feels unwelcome. And what's to like about Brooklyn? Then he meets Tony and discovers egg creams and stickball and even a wonderful new kind of fishing. Above all, he finds that his grandfather is not a "cold, unfriendly" man -- and that it was up to Sam to reach out to him, and to figure out why people call him Bugsy.
In the summer of 1953, nine-year-old Sam and his mom move to Brooklyn to live with his grandfather. Mom has lost her job and has no prospects back home in West Virginia. So Sam leaves his friends and his fishing and his fabulous countryside and squeezes into Gramps's small, hot, noisy apartment with Mom -- and Dad (in an urn, where he's been since dying in the war). Right away, Sam feels unwelcome. And what's to like about Brooklyn? Then he meets Tony and discovers egg creams and stickball and even a wonderful new kind of fishing. Above all, he finds that his grandfather is not a "cold, unfriendly" man -- and that it was up to Sam to reach out to him, and to figure out why people call him Bugsy.
96 pages, Hardcover
First published March 31, 2000
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December 4, 2024
Enjoyed the setting in New York and the time period. Moving to a neighborhood and adjusting to a city and new friends.
April 22, 2014
gr 3-4 83pgs
1953, Brooklyn. When 9 year old Sam and his mother move in with Sam's grandfather, Sam wishes he could live anywhere else. His grandfather doesn't even seem to want him around and leaves the apartment each day. It is only when Sam decides to follow him one day that he begins to see a different side to his grandfather, whom the neighborhood calls "Bugsy".
Not a lot of detail about the time period. More time is spent describing stickball and the relationship between Sam and his grandfather.
1953, Brooklyn. When 9 year old Sam and his mother move in with Sam's grandfather, Sam wishes he could live anywhere else. His grandfather doesn't even seem to want him around and leaves the apartment each day. It is only when Sam decides to follow him one day that he begins to see a different side to his grandfather, whom the neighborhood calls "Bugsy".
Not a lot of detail about the time period. More time is spent describing stickball and the relationship between Sam and his grandfather.
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews