01368cam a2200325 4500 515694044 TxAuBib 20211007120000.0 100915s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2010025376 9780061120077 paperback 0061120073 paperback TxAuBib Smith, Betty, 1896-1972. A tree grows in Brooklyn / Betty Smith ; with a foreword by Anna Quindlen. First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition. New York : HarperPerennial Modern Classics, 2006. xi, 493 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. "A hardcover edition of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn was published in 1943 by Harper & Brothers, Publishers"--T.p. verso. 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. 810 Lexile. Accelerated Reader UG 5.8 23.0 548. 20211007. Poor families Fiction. Girls Fiction. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Fiction. Domestic fiction. Bildungsromans. TXBVM