TY - BOOK AU - Smith Betty TI - A tree grows in brooklyn SN - 9780099427575 U1 - 813.52 23 PY - 1951/// CY - Great Britian PB - Penguin books N2 - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a semi-autobiographical 1943 novel written by Betty Smith. The story focuses on an impoverished but aspirational adolescent girl and her family living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City, during the first two decades of the 20th century ER -