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Julia Alvarez
A novel of Latin American life.
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Literary icon Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies shares an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling and her homeland of the Dominican Republic. Alma Cruz…
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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.
Literary icon Julia Alvarez returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling itself that will be an instant classic. Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of The…
Literary icon and great American novelist Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the Garc?a Girls Lost Their Accents, returns with a luminescent novel…
Alice L. Trupe
This comprehensive overview of Julia Alvarez’s fiction, nonfiction, and poetry offers biographical information and parses the author’s important works and the intentions behind them. Reading Julia Alvarez reviews the author’s…
Silvio Sirias
Julia Alvarez made her mark on the American literary horizon with the 1991 publication of her debut novel How the Garc^D'ia Girls Lost Their Accents, a story based on her…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Julia Alvarez’s Exile, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
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A Study Guide for Julia Alvarez’s Liberty, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
A Study Guide for Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography…
A Study Guide for Julia Alvarez’s Daughter of Invention, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
A Study Guide for Julia Alvarez’s Return to Sender, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
A Study Guide for Julia Alvarez’s Women’s Work, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
[A] beguiling memoir of family and culture. –O, The Oprah Magazine
In a story that travels beyond borders and between families, acclaimed Dominican novelist and poet Julia Alvarez reflects on…
Juanita and Miguel’s great aunt, Ta Lola, comes from the Dominican Republic to help take care of them after their parents divorce, and soon she is so involved in their…
Translation of: How Taia Lola ended up starting over.
Originally published in English in the United States as Return to sender by Julia Alvarez, copyright A2009 by Julia Alvarez, By Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s…
Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, New York, in 2004 –Title page verso.
Translation of: How Taia Lola saved the summer.
It’s a long way from Santo Domingo to the Bronx, but if anyone can go the distance, it’s the Garcia girls. Four lively Latinas plunge from a pampered life of…
MILLY KAUFMAN ES una adolescente estadounidense comun y corriente que vive en el estado de Vermont hasta que un estudiante nuevo llamado Pablo llega a su escuela secundaria. Su acento…
Gathers the poems included in the author’s first book, which focused on her bilingual and bicultural heritage, thirteen new poems, and the author’s reflections on her first book.
From the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of Butterflies comes an epic and intimate novel about two generations of Dominican women and…
Alma is set on writing another of her bestselling family sagas, but when she discovers the story of 22 orphan boys who were selected in 1803 to act as RcarriersS…
When three girls and their father visit for a week in the summer, it takes Tia Lola to make Miguel forget his unhappiness at the absence of any boys and…
Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republica in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who…
Although ten-year-old Miguel is at first embarrassed by his aunt, Taia Lola, when she comes to Vermont from the Dominican Republic to stay with his mother, his sister, and him…
Includes reading and discussion guide and recommended reading from Julia Alvarez.
This national bestseller beautifully captures the threshold experience of the new immigrant, where the past is not yet a memory ( The New York Times Book Review ).
Una profesora de literatura intenta redescubrir quiaen es despuaes de la repentina muerte de su marido, incluso cuando una serie de sacudidas familiares y polaiticas la obligan a preguntarse quae…
For use in schools and libraries only. 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…
After Tyler’s father is injured in an accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm. Tyler isn’t sure what to make of…
Alvarez has been called Oa one-woman cultural collisionO by the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and that has never been truer than in this story about three of her most…
With the help of her niece and nephew and the three Sword Sisters, Ta Lola is opening the doors of Colonel Charlebois’ grand old Vermont house to visitors as a…
The bestselling author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents explores the phenomenon of the Latina sweet 15 celebration. An enlightening and entertaining portrait of contemporary Latino culture, this…
In 1960 in the Dominican Republic, three young women from a pious Catholic family were assassinated after visiting their husbands who had been jailed as suspected rebel leaders. The Mirabal…
In her first book of nonfiction, Alvarez presents 12 essays that take readers behind the scenes to share the lessons she’s learned on the way to becoming an internationally acclaimed…
Moving to Vermont after his parents split, Miguel has plenty to worry about. Tia Lola, his quirky, carismatica, and maybe magical aunt makes his life even more unpredictable when she…
Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, New York, in 2002 –Copyright page.
For use in schools and libraries only. Tyler’s father is injured in a tractor accident, and his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure…
Seventy-five autobiographical poems by Dominican American author Julia Alvarez.
