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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Description
A poignant tale of childhood and the ties of family, "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" will transport the reader to the early 1900s where a little girl named Francie dreamily looks out her window at a tree struggling to reach the sky.
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"This harrowing tale of a young girl in the slums is a searing portrayal of turn-of-the-century New York, and Stephen Crane's most innovative work. Published in 1893, when the author was just twenty-one, it broke new ground with its vivid characters, its brutal naturalism, and its empathic rendering of the lives of the poor. It remains both "powerful, severe, and harshly comic" (in Alfred Kazin's words) and a masterpiece of modern American prose."...
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