A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)

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For their spending money Francie and Neeley Nolan relied on a few pennies they collected from the junk collector every Saturday. Katie, their mother, worked as a janitor in a Brooklyn tenement, and the money she and their father earned—he from his Saturday night jobs as a singing waiter—was barely enough to keep the family alive and clothed.

After their Saturday morning trips with the rags, metal, and rubber they had collected during the week, Francie would visit the library. She was methodically going through its contents in alphabetical order by reading...

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