A Nickel, a Trolley, a Treasure House

by Sharon Reiss Baker

Book Overview

Growing up on the Lower East Side, Lionel knows only a tiny tenement apartment and a few crowded streets. He scribbles drawings on every available scrap of paper but doesn?t think much of them?until he takes a momentous streetcar journey to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There, he finds that the world is a wider and more exciting place than he could have imagined. With gentle humor and fondness, Sharon Reiss Baker tells a story based on her own family...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067005982X
• ISBN13: 9780670059829
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.8" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 5 years and up
• Grade Range: Kindergarten and higher