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Return to Sender
Julia Alvarez is well known for unflinchingly addressing contemporary social issues in her fiction for adults, but she also does the same in her middle-grade novel Return to Sender. Winning the Belpré Award for Narrative, Return to Sender tells a story about the friendship between Tyler, a young Anglo-American boy who lives on his family’s farm in Vermont, and Mari, the eldest daughter of the undocumented Mexican man that Tyler’s parents have hired to help work the farm. Both Tyler’s and Mari’s worldviews are challenged as their lives become increasingly intertwined in Alvarez’s moving novel.
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