Return to Sender
Narrator: Ozzie Rodriguez & Olivia Preciado
Imprint: Listening Library
Grades: Grades 4-7
Ages: 9-12 years
Release Date: October 19, 2010
7 Hours and 33 Minutes
List Price: $43
ISBN: 9780307707659
Categories:
Juvenile Fiction - Social Themes - Emigration & Immigration, Juvenile Fiction - People & Places - United States - Hispanic & Latino, Juvenile Fiction - Social Themes - Friendship
After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. Tyler isn’ t sure what to make of these workers. Are they undocumented? And what about the three daughters, particularly Mari, the oldest, who is proud of her Mexican heritage but also increasingly connected her American life. Her family lives in constant fear of being discovered by the authorities and sent back to the poverty they left behind in Mexico. Can Tyler and Mari find a way to be friends despite their differences?
In a novel full of hope, but no easy answers, Julia Alvarez weaves a beautiful and timely story that will stay with readers long after they finish it.
In a novel full of hope, but no easy answers, Julia Alvarez weaves a beautiful and timely story that will stay with readers long after they finish it.
AWARDS
- Pura Belpre Author Award Winner
- ALA Notable Children's Book
- NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies
- Indiana Young Hoosier Award
- Américas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature
- ALA Best Books for Young Adults
- Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best books
- ALA Notable Children's Book
- South Carolina Junior Book Award
- Kansas William White Award