The prince of Steel Pier / by Stacy Nockowitz.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Minneapolis, MN : Kar-Ben Publishing, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 242 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781728430331
- 172843033X
- 9781728430348
- 1728430348
- Hotels, motels, etc. -- Fiction
- Gangsters -- Juvenile fiction
- Hotels -- Juvenile fiction
- Family-owned business enterprises -- Juvenile fiction
- Jews -- New Jersey -- Juvenile fiction
- Families -- New Jersey -- Juvenile fiction
- Atlantic City (N.J.) -- Juvenile fiction
- New Jersey -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | NOCKOWIT STACY | Available | 33111010899967 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award
A Sydney Taylor Notable Book
Tablet Magazine's Best Jewish Kids Books of the Year
A young teen falls in with the mob, and learns a lesson about what kind of person he wants to be.
In The Prince of Steel Pier, Joey Goodman is spending the summer at his grandparents' struggling hotel in Atlantic City, a tourist destination on the decline. Nobody in Joey's big Jewish family takes him seriously, so when Joey's Skee-Ball skills land him an unusual job offer from a local mobster, he's thrilled to be treated like "one of the guys," and develops a major crush on an older girl in the process. Eventually disillusioned by the mob's bravado, and ashamed of his own dishonesty, he recalls words of wisdom from his grandfather that finally resonate. Joey realizes where he really belongs: with his family, who drive him crazy, but where no one fights a battle alone. All it takes to get by is one's wits...and a little help from one's brothers.
Ages 10-14. Kar-Ben Publishing.
Grades 4-6. Kar-Ben Publishing.
"While helping out at his Jewish family's struggling Atlantic City hotel in 1975, thirteen-year-old Joey Goodman gets a summer job working for a mobster and faces a life-or-death decision"-- Provided by publisher.