num_pages: 240
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Learning Tree
titlecomplete: The Learning Tree
genres: Classics, Banned Books, Adult Fiction, African American, Young Adult, Novels, Historical Fiction, Coming Of Age, Fiction, African American Literature
ratings_count: 1564
places: Kansas
publisher: Fawcett