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Oct 10, 2012 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 2014, usa
Loved it from page 1

Slow paced and really descriptive but I loved it.

I really enjoyed learning about life back then for the Nolans
Highs and lows of life and daily experience

I was so emotionally attached to Francie. She was a brillant character and I loved her to pieces
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Okaaaay. No, it's not okay! It's insane and depression-inducing. And it totally wasn't 'it' for me. I wasn't in the mood for being any further depressed, thank you very much not! But, well, I got in for this ride and I can't blame anyone (other than my roving eyes & unstructured reading habits) for me reading it.

And they say Dostoyevsky's miserable! Frankly, this isn't a far cry from him concerning inducing depression!

Basically, it's the great-grandmother of The Glass Castle but without all the
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Aiyana
Aug 21, 2015 rated it liked it
A coming-of-age novel not too much unlike Anne of Green Gables, Little House on the Prairie, or Little Women. It's about a little girl and her humble, yet proud little family growing up and finding wonder and beauty in the poor slums of Brooklyn.
I would never have heard of it if it hadn't been for Goodreads.
While this is can be read and enjoyed by anyone who likes a heart-warming novel, I think I might have liked it more if I had read it in my early teens or something. I found the writing styl
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Jan 31, 2013 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Jul 19, 2014 marked it as to-read
Shelves: classic, young-adult
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Dec 02, 2015 rated it it was amazing
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