Before We Were Free
New York : Ember, 2018.
Format: Book
Edition: First Ember edition.
Description: 179 pages : maps ; 21 cm
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.
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 -- Author's note.
Subjects:
Trujillo Molina, Rafael Le{acute}onidas, 1891-1961 -- Juvenile fiction.
Families -- Dominican Republic -- Juvenile fiction.
Revolutions -- Juvenile fiction.
Dominican Republic -- History -- 1930-1961 -- Juvenile fiction.
Dominican Republic -- Juvenile fiction.
Trujillo Molina, Rafael Le{acute}onidas, 1891-1961 -- Juvenile fiction.
Families -- Dominican Republic -- Juvenile fiction.
Revolutions -- Juvenile fiction.
Dominican Republic -- History -- 1930-1961 -- Juvenile fiction.
Dominican Republic -- Juvenile fiction.
Target Audience: 890L
ISBN:
0399555498
Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, New York, in 2002.
Pura Belpré Childern's Author Award Winner, 2004.
Pura Belpré Childern's Author Award Winner, 2004.