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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" is the coming-of-age story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet fromative 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.
2) Acid row
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Visiting a crime-riddled housing project, unaware that a known pedophile lives there, Sophie Morrison learns that a child has gone missing and that the project's vigilantes are out in force, trapping Sophie with a man who is intent on hurting her.
Author
Series
Li xiang tu shu guan volume 7
Publisher
Ru guo chu ban she
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
Francie Nolan and her brother, Neeley, grow up in the slums of Brooklyn in the early 1900s.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Brooklyn, the 1920s. Margy Shannon-- shy, eager, joyfully optimistic-- lives with her parents and has witnessed how a lifetime of work and poverty has worn them down. Unable to speak up to her overbearing mother, Margy takes refuge in dreams of finding a husband she loves, having children, and living in a nice home. When she meets Frankie Malone, she thinks at last her dreams might be fulfilled ... until a devastating tragedy forces Margy to stand...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.9 - AR Pts: 71
Language
English
Description
"When Nicholas Nickleby is left penniless after his father's death, he appeals to his wealthy uncle to help him find work and to protect his mother and sister"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Elsie is desperate for a horse of her own, but her family can't afford to buy a horse, never mind pay for the grain and hay to keep it fed through the winter. With her father injured, Elsie must find a way to earn money-- in addition to going to school and helping Mam with the other kids. At her classmate Elam's family's horse farm, it becomes harder and harder to be the responsible young woman her parents expect her to be. Struggling to reconcile...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama--about a mother fighting for her sanity and survival"--
From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is repulsed by the shelter's squalid conditions: their cockroach-infested room, the barely edible food, and the shifty...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"At fifty-one years old, twins Jeanie and Julius still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation in the English countryside. The cottage they have shared their entire lives is their only protection against the modernizing world around them. Inside its walls, they make music, and in its garden, they grow everything they need to survive. To an outsider, it looks like poverty; to them, it is home. But when Dot dies unexpectedly, the world they've...
Author
Series
Da xiao shuo volume 04
Publisher
Zu zhi wen hua you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
中文（繁體）
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