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      [2015]., Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House Call No: HI-INT 813 .010806    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: Where do authors get their ideas? And how do they turn those ideas into stories? This anthology looks at the process of taking real-life experiences and turning them into works of engaging fiction. The collection features award-winning and bestselling middle-grade authors who provide both original fictional short stories as well as the nonfiction accounts that inspired them.
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      c2002., Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House Call No: [Fic]   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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      2004, c2002., Pre-adolescent, Dell Laurel-Leaf Call No: [Fic]   Edition: 1st Laurel-Leaf ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: 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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      2002., Pre-adolescent, Knopf : Distributed by Random House Call No: Historical fiction FIC ALVAREZ   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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      c2002., Pre-adolescent, A. Knopf Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION FIC ALV   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:2 of 3     At Location(s)Click here to watch    Click here to view    More... Summary Note: 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.
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      2004., Juvenile, Dell Laurel-Leaf Call No: Class Set FIC ALV   Edition: First Laurel-Leaf edition.    Availability:213 of 218     At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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      2004., Juvenile, Dell Laurel-Leaf Call No: Historical fiction FIC ALVAREZ   Edition: 1st Laurel-Leaf ed.    Availability:42 of 42     At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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      1991., Penguin Books Call No: Historical fiction FIC ALVAREZ    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: Uprooted from their family home in the Dominican Republic the four Garcia sisters arrive in New York City in 1960 to find a far different life. What they have lost and what they find are revealed in the 15 interconnected stories of this novel.
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      1992, c1991., Plume Call No: 813 .54    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: It's a long way from Santo Domingo to the Bronx, but if anyone can go the distance, it's the Garcia girls. Four lively latinas plunged from a pampered life of privilege on an island compound into the big-city chaos of New York, they rebel against Mami and Papi's old-world discipline and embrace all that America has to offer.
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      2010., Pre-adolescent, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: [Fic]   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: 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 she is so involved in their small Vermont community that when her visa expires, the whole town turns out to support her.
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      1994., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Call No: Historical fiction FIC ALVAREZ   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: A blend of fact and fiction,this book is inspired by the true story of the three Mirabal sisters who, in 1960, were murdered for their part in an underground plot to overthrow the government.
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      c2009., Pre-adolescent, Yearling Call No: [Fic]   Edition: 1st Yearling ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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      2009., Pre-adolescent, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Young adult FIC ALVAREZ   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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      2004., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Call No: 811 Alv   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a collection of seventy-five poems that provide a narrative of a woman's inner life as she looks back from the perspective of middle age.