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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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Start date
August 1, 2019
Finish date
August 31, 2019
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New School Classics- 1915-2005
Discussion leader
Katy
Why we're reading this
Revisit the Shelf Group Reread, August 2019

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Revisit the Shelf Group Read, May 2013
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What Members Thought

Denise
Aug 19, 2011 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fiction
When I was about ten years old, my mom told me that when she was my age her favorite book was A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I never asked what it was about or had any interest in reading it myself, just filing away the information in the back of my mind. I'm now 43. I saw the book (for the first time) in a charity shop about a month ago and wondered what my mom loved about it, so I bought it.

I kind of wish that she had pushed me to read it when I was younger, because it's a fabulous story. I wonder
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Meagan
Jun 26, 2011 marked it as owned-but-not-yet-read
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Candi
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