Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith | Grade Level: 8-12 | Lexile 810
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is the coming-of-age story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the turn-of-the-century Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn. This poignant and moving classic of American literature is filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and incident. Smith has created a work of literary art that brilliantly captures a unique time and place as well as deeply resonant moments of universal experience.