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Before We Were Free - I wonder what it would be like to be free? Not to need wings because you dont have to fly away from your country? Anita de la Torre is a twelve-year-old girl living in the Dominican Republic in 1960. Most of her relatives have emigrated to the United States, her To Toni has disappeared, Papi has been getting mysterious phone calls about butterflies and someone named Mr. Smith, and the secret police have started terrorizing her family for their suspected opposition to the countrys dictator. While Anita deals with a frightening series of events, she also struggles with her adolescence and her own personal fight to be free.


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⚡️Book Title : Before We Were Free
⚡Book Author : Julia Alvarez
⚡Page : 192 pages
⚡Published April 13th 2004 by Laurel Leaf Library (first published August 13th 2002)

Before We Were Free

I wonder what it would be like to be free? Not to need wings because you dont have to fly away from your country? Anita de la Torre is a twelve-year-old girl living in the Dominican Republic in 1960. Most of her relatives have emigrated to the United States, her To Toni has disappeared, Papi has been getting mysterious phone calls about butterflies and someone named Mr. Smith, and the secret police have started terrorizing her family for their suspected opposition to the countrys dictator. While Anita deals with a frightening series of events, she also struggles with her adolescence and her own personal fight to be free.