Ten year old Miguel learns to love his colorful 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.
Minerva Mirabal and her sisters, known as the Butterflies, become heroes and martyrs for their country as they work to overthrow tyrannical dictator General Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic in the 1950s.
Although ten-year-old Miguel is at first embarrassed by his colorful 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.
When three girls and their father visit for a week in the summer, it takes T?ia Lola to make Miguel forget his unhappiness at the absence of any boys and embrace the adventures that ensue.
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.
When three girls and their father visit for a week in the summer, it takes T?ia Lola to make Miguel forget his unhappiness at the absence of any boys and embrace the adventures that ensue.
Explores a Latina girl's coming of age ceremony, discussing the origins and cultural importance of a quinceanera and providing insight into the financial and social implications of a quince party.
A fiction collection of interconnected vignettes in which the four Garcia sisters, now adults, look back on their lives and the adjustments they had to make after their family was forced to flee the Dominican Republic and take up residence in the Bronx.
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.
