![]() (Ages 10 and up) -Emilie Coulter, Amazon. Her frank writing about life's squalor was alarming to some of the more genteel society, but the book's humour and pathos ensured its place in the realm of classics-and in the hearts of readers, young and old. Betty Smith's poignant, honest novel created a big stir when it was first published more than 50 years ago. Like the Tree of Heaven that grows out of cement or through cellar gratings, resourceful Francie struggles against all odds to survive and thrive. But she is her mother's child, too-deeply practical and in constant need of truth. ![]() She is her father's child-romantic and hungry for beauty. Francie learns early the meaning of hunger and the value of a penny. ![]() ![]() She grows up with a sweet, tragic father, a severely realistic mother and an aunt who gives her love too freely-to men and a brother who will always be the favoured child. Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory: First Edition of A. Francie Nolan, avid reader, penny candy connoisseur and adroit observer of human nature, has much to ponder in colourful, turn-of-the-century Brooklyn. ![]()
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