# A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

**Author:** Betty Smith
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**First published:** 1943
**Page count:** 443
**Genre:** Literary Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780060736262`
**ISBN-10:** `0060736267`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/a-tree-grows-in-brooklyn
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## Themes

- poverty
- coming of age
- education
- family
- immigrant life

## Content notes

- alcoholism
- attempted sexual assault

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