A tree grows in Brooklyn

Resource Information

The work A tree grows in Brooklyn represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

A tree grows in Brooklyn

Statement of responsibility

Betty Smith ; with a foreward by Anna Quindlen

Creator

• trueSmith, Betty, 1896-1972

Author

• trueSmith, Betty, 1896-1972

Subject

• Domestic fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Fiction
• Girls
• Girls -- Fiction
• New York (State) -- New York | Brooklyn
• Poor families
• Poor families -- Fiction
• Bildungsromans
• Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Bildungsromans

Language

eng

Summary

Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber, as a word, was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound, but you couldn't fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it; especially on a Saturday afternoon in summer. Late in the afternoon the sun slanted down into the mossy yard belonging to Francie Nolan's house, and warmed the worn wooden fence. Looking at the shafted sun, Francie had that same fine feeling that came when she recalled the poem they recited in school. This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld. The one tree in Francie's yard was neither a pine nor a hemlock. It had pointed leaves which grew along green switches which radiated from the bough and made a tree which looked like a lot of opened green umbrellas. Some people called it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky. It grew in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps and it was the only tree that grew out of cement. It grew lushly, but only in the tenements districts

Member of

• Perennial classic

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.52

Index

no index present

Intended audience

810L

Intended audience source

Lexile

Interest level

UG

Literary form

novels

Reading level

5.8

Series statement

Perennial classics

Study program name

Accelerated Reader AR