Alvarez, Julia

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After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders.

The secret footprints

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A story based on Dominican folklore, about the ciguapas, a tribe of beautiful underwater people whose feet are attached backwards, with their toes pointing in the direction from which they have come.

Before we were free

  • Alvarez, Julia
2018
Anita, a typically self-absorbed twelve-year-old living in the Dominican Republic in the early 1960s, is surprised to discover her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.
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Finding miracles

  • Alvarez, Julia
2018
Fifteen-year-old Milly Kaufman is an average American teenager until Pablo, a new student at her school, inspires her to search for her birth family in his native country.
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Where do they go?

  • Alvarez, Julia
Presents a poem for young readers that looks at the emotional side of death.

How T?a Lola ended up starting over

  • Alvarez, Julia
2012
Worried that Papa Espada cannot find a job, T?a Lola, Juanita, Miguel, and the "Sword" sisters decide to start a bed and breakfast at Colonel Charlebois's Vermont house.

How T?ia Lola learned to teach

  • Alvarez, Julia
2010
Juanita and Miguel's great aunt, T?ia Lola, comes from the Dominican Republic to help take care of them after their parents divorce, and soon she is so involved in their small Vermont community that when her visa expires, the whole town turns out to support her.

How Tia Lola came to (visit) Stay

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Ten-year-old Miguel learns to love his colorful aunt, T?ia Lola, when she comes to Vermont from the Dominican Republic to stay with his mother, his sister, and him after his parents' divorce.

How Tia Lola Came to Stay

Submitted by khenkes on Wed, 08/09/2017 - 11:25

Although ten-year-old Miguel is at first embarrassed by his colorful great aunt, Tia Lola, when she comes to Vermont from the Dominican Republic to stay with his mother, his sister, and him after his parents' divorce, he learns to love her.

How tia lola came to stay

Submitted by khenkes on Wed, 08/09/2017 - 11:25

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