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02205cam a2200289Ia 4500 |
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70081551 |
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20081010111858.0 |
| FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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060613t20061943nyu 000 1 eng d |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0061120073 (pbk.) |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780061120077 (pbk.) |
| CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
IV0 |
| Transcribing agency |
IV0 |
| Modifying agency |
BAKER |
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YDXCP |
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BTCTA |
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JID |
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COP |
| LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
PS3537.M325 |
| Item number |
T7 2006 |
| AUTHOR NAME |
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| AUTHOR NAME |
Smith, Betty, |
| TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
A tree grows in Brooklyn / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Betty Smith ; with a foreword by Anna Quindlen. |
| EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics ed. |
| PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
HarperPerennial, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2006, c1943. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xi, 493, 16 p. ; |
| Dimensions |
21 cm. |
| SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
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. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Poor families |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Girls |
| ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
02. English Fiction |
| LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC) |
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F SMI |
| c |
411 |
