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Before we were free

In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.

Main Author: Alvarez, Julia.
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: New York : Random House/Listening Library, p2004.
Subjects:
Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas, > 1891-1961 > Young adult fiction.
Family > Dominican Republic > Young adult fiction.
Dominican Republic > History > 1930-1961 > Young adult fiction.
Dominican Republic > History > Young adult fiction.
Historical fiction > Young adult
Audiobooks > Young adult.
Summary: In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.
Item Description: Unabridged.
Compact discs.
Physical Description: 5 sound discs (ca. 72 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN: 1400089956 :
Author Notes: 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.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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