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Summary: Best Book Ever!!!
Review: When I was 13 a good friend sugested I read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Now I'm 24 and I know I've read it a couple dozen times. Whenever I start to think that life is too much and not worth it I read this book and it remindes me that miracles do happen. I love it!!!
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Summary: I've read this book over and over, and everytime I cry.
Review: Francie Nolan is an example of what I felt like when I was 11. When I read this book, it's like going back in time. It's not just for young adults it's for adults who need to remember what it was like to be young again too. Check it out...you might be surprised!
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Summary: This was a terrific, well written, thought provoking book.
Review: I loved this book! I suggest it for anyone who knows how Brooklyn was at that time.Because both my parents and also two of my grandparents were New York city kids. I am only a 13 year old girl but I have an adult reading level. I think this book had an incredible plot and some of the most wonderfull charecters ever written about. Learning of Francie's life, her thoughts and her pain was incredibly interesting.
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Summary: One of the best books I've ever read!
Review: This book was a very touching, and thrilling book. It made you feel everything that Francie felt, made you think like her. I enjoyed it very much.
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Summary: A wonderful book!
Review: I'm 14 years old and I really don't like reading, but I fell in love with this book. I'm from Norway, a small country in north Europe, and a lot of norwegian people went to Brooklyn, in hope for a better life, in the early 1900. So that's what made me read it in the first place. Francie and I have a lot in common. Everyone should read this wonderful book. It's a lesson for life!
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Summary: Not for young adults only; quite simply, a masterpiece
Review: I'm not one to gush, but I consider this one of the finest books ever written. I've read a decent percentage of the "great books" and "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" deserves to be on the list.It can be read and enjoyed by young people, but so can "Huckleberry Finn." Like "Huck Finn," this book is even more rewarding to the adult reader. I read it for the first time at age 47 and was blown away. The characters, even the minor ones, truly leap out from the page, they're so real. The writing is seemingly effortless (which we all know is the hardest thing to do!); nearly every word is perfect. The insights into human relations and human pscyhology are startling and profound. The book is also incredibly modern. Published in 1943, describing life in the 1910's, yet, like any true classic, the dilemmas are timeless and the author's viewpoint, especially about women, speaks to us powerfully even today. Among its many strengths, "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" is a completely truthful portrait of the effect of alcoholism on a family. It also tells us about how poverty really affects people and about the immigrant experience. I can't speak to how men will respond to this book, but I believe that any woman of any age will be thrilled by it. Don't miss it. And if you read it as a teenager, read it again and rediscover one of the greatest books of 20th century American literature.
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Summary: *The Best*!!!!!
Review: This is the best book I've ever read!!!!
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Summary: This book will always remain my favourite!!!
Review: This book is superbly realistic and worth reading over and over again! I don't think you could ever get bored with this book! The characters in this book open up your heart and soul. A MUST READ!!! Eve
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Summary: An Exceptional Novel
Review: Betty Smit's book, A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN is wonderful! I read the book for the first time eight months ago. Since then, I have read this masterpeice two times, and each time, it gets better! I recomend this book to all people, young or old, or want to read a wonderful book.
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Summary: Wonderful...
Review: I first read this when I was in 8th grade and probably rushed through it. 15 years later I decided to read it again -- even the first few pages are wonderful.
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