小女孩弗兰西生活在20世纪初布鲁克林的一个贫困家庭.她熟悉回收站每一种废品的价格,知道如何买到完整的廉价发霉面包。然而一心想成为作家的她每至周末都会去图书馆,她想把那里的书从A到Z都一一看过。星期天下午,她拿着借来的书藏在浓浓树荫里看书。这样的闲暇,让她超越了星期一到星期五的困顿。几经周折,弗兰西终于得以进入大学的校门,离开了熟悉的故乡,但却把自己从小长到大的布鲁克林放在心里,永不忘记。 Little girl Francy lives in a poor family in Brooklyn early in the twentieth century.She is familiar with the price of every scrap at the Recycle Bin and knows how to get the full cheap moldy bread. However, bent on becoming a writer, she goes to the library every weekend, and she wants to read the books there from A to Z. On Sunday afternoon, she took a borrowed book and read it in thick shade. This leisure, let her beyond the monday to friday. After a series of twists and turns, Frances finally be able to enter the university gate, left the familiar hometown, but his childhood grow up to large Brooklyn in my heart, never forget.