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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Betty Smith

Start date: June 15, 2016

Finish date: July 14, 2016

Discussion: Children's Classics Buddy Reads

Discussion leader: Saphia210

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Jan 04, 2019 GONZA rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Uno dei primi libri che la mia mamma mi ha fatto leggere, un piccolo capolavoro in cui le pagine della vecchia edizione BUR si staccavano con una velocitá sconcertante. Immaginate la mia gioia quando ho potuto ricomprarlo in inglese....Resta uno dei libri che mi hanno fatto capire meglio gli Stati Uniti persino da lontano.

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Jan 26, 2017 Caitlin Channer rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, book-club

One way to feel better about your life is to read about a poor family in early 1900s Brooklyn that lives on 5 cents a day and goes without many things we take for granted (like literacy, electricity, new clothes, and stable employment).

This book was also lovely from plot and prose points of view also.

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