Title Before we were free / Julia Alvarez.

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Canton Public Library - Children's Department	J FICTION ALVAREZ	Check Shelf
Middletown, Russell Library - Young Adult Fiction	YA-ALV	Check Shelf
South Windsor Public Library - Young Adult	JYA ALVAREZ	Check Shelf
University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Children's Department	JUV. 818 A473B	Check Shelf

Edition	1st ed.
Description	167 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Awards	Pura Belpré Author Award, 2004.
	Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2003.
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.
Audience	Young Adult.
Study Program	Reading Counts! 6.5.
Audience	890 Lexile.
Contents	The eraser in the shape of the Dominican Republic -- Shhh! -- Secret Santas -- Disappeared diary -- Mr. Smith -- Operation maid -- Lying policemen -- Almost free -- Night flight -- Anita's diary -- Freedom cry -- Snow butterflies.
Study Program	Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 5.6 8.
Genre/Form	Young adult fiction.
Subject	Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas, 1891-1961 -- Fiction.
	Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leonidas, 1891-1961 -- Fiction.
	Dominican Republic -- History -- 1930-1961 -- Juvenile fiction.
	Families -- Dominican Republic -- Juvenile fiction.
	Dominican Republic -- History -- 1930-1961 -- Fiction.
	Family life -- Dominican Republic -- Fiction.
	Revolutions -- Fiction.
	Dominican Republic -- Fiction.
	Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
	Dominican Republic. (OCoLC)fst01206148
	Family life -- Dominican Republic -- Fiction.
	Revolutions -- Fiction.
	Dominican Republic -- History -- Fiction.
	Dominican Republic -- Fiction.
	Historical fiction.
Chronological Term	1930-1961
Genre/Form	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
	Historical fiction.
	Juvenile materials.
	Fiction.
Other Form:	Online version: Alvarez, Julia. Before we were free. 1st ed. New York : A. Knopf, ©2002 (OCoLC)606939716
	Online version: Alvarez, Julia. Before we were free. 1st ed. New York : A. Knopf, ©2002 (OCoLC)609289738
ISBN	0375815449 (trade)
	9780375815447 (trade)
	0375915443 (lib. bdg.)
	9780375915444 (lib. bdg.)
	044023784X
	9780440237846

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