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2005

Format:	Book
Author:	Smith, Betty, 1896-1972, author.
Title:	A tree grows in Brooklyn / Betty Smith ; with a foreword by Anna Quindlen.
Edition:	First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005. ©1943
Description:	xi, 493, 16 pages ; 21 cm
Summary:	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.
Notes:	"A hardcover edition of A tree grows in Brooklyn was published in 1943 by Harper & Brothers, Publishers. A previous hardcover edition, including the foreword by Anna Quindlen, was published in 2001 by HarperCollins Publishers"--Title page verso. Includes P.S.: insights, interviews & more ... Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.8 23.0 548. Some Davenport copies may be shelved in Book Club section.
Series:	HarperPerennial modern classics Harper Perennial modern classics.
Subjects:	Poor families -- Fiction. Girls -- Fiction. Poverty -- Fiction. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Genre:	Domestic fiction. Bildungsromans.
Other Author:	Quindlen, Anna, writer of introduction.
LCCN:	2004057293
ISBN:	0060736267 9780060736262 0061120073 9780061120077 0061652768 9781417681419 1417681411 9780061652769 9780060736262
System Availability:	7
Current Holds:	0
Control Number:	1444530
Other Number:	61170912
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