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(0)Betty Smith
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Description
The story of a young couple from Brooklyn who marry young, have little money, and face bitter parental opposition, but are determined to make something of their life together. "In Brooklyn, New York, in 1927, Carl Brown and Annie McGairy meet and fall in love. Though only eighteen, Annie travels alone to the Midwestern university where Carl is studying law to marry him. Little did they know how difficult their first year of marriage would be, in a...
2) Maggie-now
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"In Brooklyn's unforgiving urban jungle, Maggie Moore is torn between answering her own needs and catering to the desirous men who dominate her life. Confronted by her quarrelsome Irish immigrant father, the feckless lover who may become her husband, and others, Maggie must learn to navigate a cycle of loss, separation, and hope as she forges her own path toward happiness."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Corren los años veinte del siglo pasado, y descubrimos a la pequeña Francie Nolan leyendo sentada en la escalera antiincendios de su casa, a la sombra de un árbol que solo crece en los barrios más pobres de las grandes ciudades. Poco a poco, la mirada se aleja de la chiquilla para abarcar a la estrafalaria familia Nolan, que malvive en un vecindario de Brooklyn. Conoceremos así a sus padtres, a su hermano y a la entreñable tía Sissy,...
