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Finding miracles

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Alvarez, Julia
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2004.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Adoption > Young adult fiction. Central America > Young adult fiction. Schools > Young adult fiction. High schools > Young adult fiction.
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Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	264 p. ; 21 cm.
ISBN:	0375827609 (trade hardcover) 0375927603 (lib. bdg.)
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)