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The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caufield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days.
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeOne of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime. Pro tip: If you've read the novel, try the graphic novel or the posthumously published companion Go Set a Watchman.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithFrom the moment she entered the world, Francie Nolan needed to be made of stern stuff, for growing up in the Williamsburg slums demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength of spirit. Smith has created a work of literary art that brilliantly captures a unique time and place as well as deeply resonant moments of universal experience. Here is an American classic that "cuts right to the heart of life," hails the New York Times. "If you miss A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, you will deny yourself a rich experience."
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