A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Heidi Stemple With exquisitely detailed illustrations and

With exquisitely detailed illustrations and tragicomic flair

including the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize and the Hermann Hesse Translation Prize

Get out in the woods and fields with this volume as your constant inspiration

Elisha Cooper lives with his family in New York City

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Heidi Stemple With exquisitely detailed illustrations andA special 75th anniversary edition of the beloved American classic about a young girl's coming of age at the turn of the twentieth century. From the moment she entered the world, Francie Nolan needed to be made of stern stuff, for growing up in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn, New York 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