Julia Alvarez Books
The 1,000 point pro sports quiz book, baseball
By Mel Cebulash
Presents 80 quizzes with answers about the teams, players, and oddities of professional baseball.
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Before We Were Free
PURE BELPRÉ AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME • AN ALA-YALSA BEST BOOK FOR YOUNG ADULTS From renowned author Julia Alvarez comes an unforgettable story about adole...
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Before we were free
In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.
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The Secret Footprints
The Dominican legend of the ciguapas, creatures who lived in underwater caves and whose feet were on backward so that humans couldn't follow their footprints, is reinvented by renowned author Julia...
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Las huellas secretas
En un isla no muy lejana, en una época no muy distante, había una tribu de criaturas llamadas ciguapas. Vivían en frescas cuevas azules en el fondo del mar y salían a la tierra solamente de noche e...
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How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay
An endearing family story from the international bestselling author of How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies"This twist on a classic story demonstrates that dif...
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How the Garcia girls lost their accents
In the 1960s, political tension forces the García family away from Santo Domingo and towards the Bronx. The sisters all hit their strides in America, adapting and thriving despite cultural differen...
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The Other Side El Otro Lado
The New York Times Book Review has praised Alvarez’s fiction as “powerful...beautifully captures the experience of the new immigrant’s doorway where a memory is not yet the past and the future is s...
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