[PW] Looking for a Short Story: The Rose That Grew from Concrete

[Marian Drabkin]

The Rumer Godden book is a novel, not a short story, and the little girl 
(and the other children) make a whole garden in that bomb site.

Marian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sylvia Milne" <sylviamilne at btinternet.com>
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Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 7:09 AM
Subject: Re: [PW] Looking for a Short Story: The Rose That Grew from 
Concrete


> It might be "An episode of sparrows" by  Rumer Godden.
> It's about a little girl who makes a garden in a bombsite.
> It's many years since I read it, but I remember that there was a rose bush
> in it.
>
> Sylvia Milne
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> From: "Robyn Zylstra" <rczy at msn.com>
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> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 1:49 PM
> Subject: [PW] Looking for a Short Story: The Rose That Grew from Concrete
>
>
>>
>> Hello, I am looking for a short story that was either titled or had an
>> idea in it about a rose growing from concrete. I've searched, and all 
>> I've
>> found is related to Tupac's poetry.  I thought that when I read his 
>> poetry
>> I remembered a short story from when I was a child (about 15-20 years
>> ago). This would have been a story in a reading/literature textbook.
>> Thanks,Robynrczy at msn.com
>>
>>
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