Student Recommendations for

Betty Smith


A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

This is a great book about a girl in the early 1900s growing up.  You get a feel for what it was like to live in the slums there.  There are happy times and sad times.  Katy C.
Rating: ****

If you have never lived a life of poverty this book is very sad.  It shows a young girl's troubles as she's growing up as a rag picker, and the most beautiful thing around her is her tree.  Melisa C.
Rating: *****