Books like A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
If you liked A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Little Women
Because shares tags: classics, coming of age, family.
Alcott's Little Women retold: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March through the Civil War years and beyond.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Because shares tags: classics, american literature, coming of age.
Huck Finn fakes his death, floats the Mississippi with the runaway Jim, and tears up the letter that would betray him. Twain's river…
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Because shares tags: classics, american literature, coming of age.
To Kill a Mockingbird through the eyes of Scout Finch: Maycomb's slow days, Atticus's defense of Tom Robinson, the Boo Radley mystery, and…
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Because shares tags: classics, coming of age.
Janie Crawford tells Pheoby about Eatonville life with Logan Killicks, Joe Starks called Jody, and Tea Cake.
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The Karamazov Brothers
Because shares tags: classics, family.
Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha Karamazov face their father, murder, faith, and doubt in Dostoevsky's final novel.
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She's Come Undone
Because shares tags: coming of age, family.
Abused as a girl, divorced and struggling with weight, Dolores Price slowly finds healing after years of trauma.
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Running with Scissors
Because shares tags: family, coming of age.
A boy sent to live with his mother's psychiatrist grows up in a chaotic house with no rules.
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Mansfield Park
Because shares tags: classics, family.
Fanny Price loves Edmund amid Crawfords theatricals at Mansfield.
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Goodnight Moon
Because shares tags: classics, family.
A small bunny says goodnight to each object in the green room in this 1947 bedtime classic.
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Where the Red Fern Grows
Because shares tags: coming of age, family.
Billy earns two hounds and hunts raccoons in the Ozarks with love and loss.
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Hillbilly Elegy
Because shares tags: family, poverty.
Vance traces Mamaw and Papaw from Kentucky to Middletown through addiction, Marines, and Yale Law.
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Because shares tags: family, coming of age.
Nine year old Oskar searches New York for a lock matching his father's key after 9/11.
