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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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Dec 06, 2016 Jen from Quebec :0) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites-life-changers, female-authors, childhood-reads, books-read-in-2018, school, favorites, buddy-reads, memoirs, aty-challenge, reading-challenge-books

I 1st read this as a kid, and couldn't/didn't appreciate it enough at that time. I didn't realize that I was holding a precious gem. Re-reading as a teen, it quickly became one of my favorite books of all time, and one that I now constantly re-read. I re-visit Francie and the Nolan family each and every summer...Closing the cover concludes another wonderful visit with a dear old friend. --Jen from Quebec :0) ...more

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Apr 09, 2016 Coral rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: to-read-1000000-times, amazing, fall-in-love-with-reading

"Annie, the fir tree, that the Nolans had cherished with waterings and manurings, had long since sickened and died. But this tree in the yard -this tree that men chopped down... this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up its stump- this tree lived!" ...more

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