Learning Tree
 

Learning Tree

by Gordon Parks

"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... (read more)

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Darla W
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A great book about coming up in the South - or trying to - in the bad old back days. The film is equally great and was one of the first black films. I recommend showing it after students have read the novel.

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