Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. Alvarez has won numerous awards for her work, including the Pura Belpré and Américas awards for her children’s books, the Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature, and the F. Her highly acclaimed books for young readers include The Secret Footprints, A Gift of Gracias, the Tía Lola series, Finding Miracles, and Return to Sender. Julia Alvarez is the award-winning author of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies. Readers will bite their nails as the story moves to its inexorable conclusion.” - SLJ “Diary entries written by the child while in hiding will remind readers of Anne Frank’s story.
“A realistic and compelling account of a girl growing up too quickly while coming to terms with the cost of freedom.” - The Horn Book, Starred Review “A stirring work of art.” - Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
Using the strength and courage of her family, Anita must overcome her fears and fly to freedom, leaving all that she once knew behind. But by her twelfth birthday in 1960, most of her relatives have immigrated to the United States, her Tío Toni has disappeared without a trace, and the government’s secret police terrorize her remaining family because of their suspected opposition to Trujillo’s iron-fisted rule.
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME.
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