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Antes de Ser Libres

Antes de Ser Libres( )
Author: Alvarez, Julia
Translator: Valenzuela, Liliana
ISBN:978-0-525-57977-9
Publication Date:Mar 2018
Publisher:Random House Children's Books
Imprint:Ember
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $11.99
Book Description:

Anita de la Torre nunca cuestionó su libertad viviendo en la República Dominicana. Pero al cumplir doce años de edad en 1960, la mayoría de sus familiares han emigrado a Estados Unidos, su tío Toni ha desaparecido sin dejar rastro y la policía secreta del gobierno aterroriza a su familia restante dada su presunta oposición a la dictadura de Trujillo.   Utilizando la fuerza y el valor de su familia, Anita debe vencer sus miedos y volar hacia la libertad, dejando atrás...
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Book Details
Pages:192
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / General
Juvenile Fiction / Places / Caribbean & Latin America
Juvenile Fiction / War & Military
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.5 x 8.25 x 0.38 Inches
Book Weight:0.35 Pounds
Author Biography
Alvarez, Julia (Author)
Julia Alvarez was born in New York City on March 27, 1950 and was raised in the Dominican Republic. Before becoming a full-time writer, she traveled across the country with poetry-in-the-schools programs and then taught at the high school level and the college level. In 1991, she earned tenure at Middlebury College and published her first book How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent, which won the PEN Oakland/Jefferson Miles Award for excellence in 1991. Her other works include In the Time of the Butterflies, The Other Side of El Otro Lado, and Once upon a Quinceañera: Coming of Age in the USA.

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