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"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.
The Learning Tree brings us into the inner lives of a black family as they struggle to understand and accept--without malice--the bitter challenge of their special world. "A fine novel . . ."--Boston Herald.
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February 06, 2007: This is one of the greatest novels I have ever read. Gordon Parks masterfully tells the tale of a young man's jouney through adolescence during a racially turbulent period of Kansas history. It is a beautifully written story that is sure to enrich the reader long after the last page has been turned. I can not recommend this book highly enough.
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January 03, 2006: I really recommend this novel to those young students who like to read of what is was like in this kind of world when slavery was barely starting to be gone and when the freedom was coming in to this world. This is a good book because you'll want to keep on reading and wonder what's going to happen in the next chapter. I'm in ninth grade and I was on my Christmas break and I had nothing else to do so I read this book.