Before We Were Free
by Alvarez, Julia
Pura Belpré Award/Honor BookBCCB Blue Ribbon BookALA Notable/Best BooksAmericas Award for Children's LiteratureIRA's Teachers' Choice AwardDominican RepublicHistorical FictionMisc./Other History
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AR Book Level
5.6
AR Points
8
Word Count
48,212
Interest Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
60706 EN
About this book
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.