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Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Primera edicíon Vintage Español.
Physical Desc
xv, 300 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Cuando las hermanas García --Carla, Sandra, Yolanda y Sofía-- y sus padres huyen de la República Dominicana buscando refugio de la persecución política, encuentran un nuevo hogar en los Estados Unidos. Pero el Nueva York de los años sesenta es marcadamente diferente de la vida privilegiada, aunque conflictiva, que han dejado atrás. Bajo la presión de asimilarse a una nueva cultura, las muchachas García se alisan el pelo, abandonan la lengua...
Author
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2010
Edition
Library ed.
Physical Desc
7 sound discs (ca. 70 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2011
Physical Desc
6 sound discs (7 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
How Tía Lola came to (visit) stay: 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 Tía Lola learned to teach: Juanita and Miguel's great aunt, Tía Lola, comes from the Dominican Republic to help take care of them after their parents divorce, and soon...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Ellas eran las cuatro hermanas Mirabal-simbolos de una esperanza desafiante en un pais ensombrecido por la dictadura y la desesperacion. Sacrificaron sus vidas, seguras, y confortables, en nombre de la libertad. Ellas eran "las Mariposas," y en esta novela extraordinaria, Patria, Minerva, Maria Teresa, y Dede nos cuentan, a traves de las decadas, sus propias historias. Desde anecdotas sobre lazos para el pelo y secretos enamoramientos al contrabando...
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