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Smith, Betty, 1896-1972.

A tree grows in Brooklyn / Betty Smith ; with a foreword by Anna Quindlen. - 1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition. - xi, 493, 16 pages ; 21 cm.

Originally published: 1943. Various printings.

Young Francie Nolan, having inherited both her father's romantic and her mother's practical nature, struggles to survive and thrive growing up in the slums of Brooklyn in the early twentieth century.



ISBN: 0060736267 9780060736262 0061120073 9780061120077

Source: BRO-cust20240605-147

LCCN: 2004057293

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Poor families--Fiction.
Girls--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromans.

LC Class. No.: PS3537.M2895 / T7 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.52