{"product_id":"a-tree-grows-in-brooklyn-isbn-9780060001940","title":"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the moment she entered the world, Francie Nolan needed to be made of stern stuff, for the often harsh life of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength of spirit. Often scorned by neighbors for her family’s erratic and eccentric behavior—such as her father Johnny’s taste for alcohol and Aunt Sissy’s habit of marrying serially without the formality of divorce—no one, least of all Francie, could say that the Nolans’ life lacked drama. By turns overwhelming, sublime, heartbreaking, and uplifting, the Nolans’ daily experiences in this classic novel are tenderly threaded with family connectedness and raw with honesty. Betty Smith has, in the pages of \u003ci\u003eA Tree Grows in Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e, captured the joys of humble Williamsburg life-from \"junk day\" on Saturdays, when the children of Francie’s neighborhood traded their weekly take for pennies, to the special excitement of holidays, bringing cause for celebration and revelry. Betty Smith has artfully caught this sense of exciting life in a poignant work of historical fiction, a novel of childhood replete with incredibly rich moments of universal experiences—a truly remarkable achievement for any writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis enduring portrait of a bygone Brooklyn is a story of survival, resilience, and the quiet moments that define a life.\u003c\/p\u003e | The American classic about a young girl's coming of age at the turn of the century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\"A profoundly moving novel, and an honest and true one. It cuts right to the heart of life...If you miss \u003cem\u003eA Tree Grows in Brooklyn\u003c\/em\u003e you will deny yourself a rich experience...It is a poignant and deeply understanding story of childhood and family relationships. The Nolans lived in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn from 1902 until 1919...Their daughter Francie and their son Neely knew more than their fair share of the privations and sufferings that are the lot of a great city's poor. Primarily this is Francie's book. She is a superb feat of characterization, an imaginative, alert, resourceful child. And Francie's growing up and beginnings of wisdom are the substance of \u003cem\u003eA Tree Grows in Brooklyn\u003c\/em\u003e.\" \u003cbr\u003e--\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e \"One of the most dearly beloved and one of the finest books of our day.\" \u003cbr\u003e--Orville Prescott \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"One of the books of the century.\"\u003cbr\u003e--New York Public Library\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“A profoundly moving novel, and an honest and true one. It cuts right to the heart of life. . . . If you miss \u003cem\u003eA Tree Grows in Brooklyn\u003c\/em\u003e you will deny yourself a rich experience.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of the books of the century.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Public Library\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Betty Smith was a born storyteller.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eA Tree Grows in Brooklyn\u003c\/em\u003e deserves to be thought of as one of the greatest American novels.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of the most cherished of American novels….It is the Dickensian novel of New York that we didn’t think we had.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A poignant and deeply understanding story of childhood and family relationships....[Smith’s] book has light and air in it, comedy and pathos, and an underlying rhythm pulsing to the surge and flow of humanity itself. No matter what happens to the Nolans, they never lose their awareness of the sweetness and wonder of life.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrville Prescott, New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The quintessential New York immigrant novel, which underscored the power of education.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMin Jin Lee, The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887540990181,"sku":"NP9780060001940","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780060001940.jpg?v=1730226324","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-tree-grows-in-brooklyn-isbn-9780060001940","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}