Before We Were Free

Name: Before We Were Free
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ISBN: 9780375815454

ISBN-10: 0375815457

ISBN-13: 9780375815454

Edition: N/A

Authors: Julia Alvarez, Liliana Valenzuela

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Now available in Spanish, the book Horn Book called “a realistic and compelling account of a girl growing up too quickly while coming to terms with the cost of freedom.” I wonder what it would be like to be free? Not to need wings because you don’t have to fly away from your country? From award-winning author Julia Alvarez comes the story of Anita de la Torre, a 12-year-old girl living in the Dominican Republic in 1960. Most of her relatives have immigrated to the United States, her Tío Toni has disappeared, Papi has been getting mysterious phone calls about butterflies and someone named Mr. Smith, and the secret police have started terrorizing her family for their suspected opposition…

Book details

List price: $6.99
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Publication date: 4/13/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 4.25" wide x 6.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.198

Julia Alvarez is a writer and a poet. She was born in the Dominican Republic. Alvarez wrote novels and poetry including How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent and In the Time of the Butterflies. Her poetry is collected in the book The Other Side of El Otro Lado. Alverez won the PEN Oakland/Jefferson Miles Award for excellence in 1991 for How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent and was nominated for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award for In the Time of the Butterflies.