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The Learning Tree

"A fine novel."

THE BOSTON HERALD

Photographer, writer, and composer, Gordon Parks has written a moving, true-to-life novel of growing up as a black man in this country in this century. Hailed by critics and readers alike, THE LEARNING TREE tells the extraordinary journey of a family as they struggle to understand the world around them and leave their mark a world that is better for their having been in it.

Audience
young adultchildrensadult
Length
medium · 240 pages

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