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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2024, internationally bestselling author and literary icon Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies is "beautiful, heartbreaking and alive ... a lyrical work of historical fiction based on the story of the Mirabal sisters, revolutionary heroes who had opposed and fought against Trujillo." (Concepción de León, New York Times)
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
Español
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“Un libro importante…Emocionalmente sobrecogedor. Alvarez nos hace un regalo cargado de rara generosidad y coraje.”—The San Diego Union-Tribune
Ellas eran lasa cuatro hermanas Mirabal—símbolos de una esperanza desafiante en un país ensombrecido por la dictadura y la desesperación. Sacrificaron sus vidas, seguras, y confortables, en nombre de la libertad....
Ellas eran lasa cuatro hermanas Mirabal—símbolos de una esperanza desafiante en un país ensombrecido por la dictadura y la desesperación. Sacrificaron sus vidas, seguras, y confortables, en nombre de la libertad....
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
For generations, General Rafael Trujillo has ruled the Dominican Republic with a mixture of terror and savagery, until Minerva Mirabal dares to oppose him. Inspired by her love for a rebel leader, Minerva and her sisters, known as Las Mariposas, endure unimaginable hardships in a battle for the very soul of a nation. But as their acts of bravery gain notoriety, Trujillos forces close in determined to put an end to Minervas heroics.
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Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
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"Por qué a usted no la mataron?", le preguntan constantemente a Dede Mirabal. "Quedé viva para contarles la historia", responde ella. Y en las páginas de Vivas en su jardín hace exactamente eso: nos cuenta la historia de sus tres hermanas, Patria, Minerva y María Teresa, conocidas como "las Mariposas, cuya oposición a la dictadura de Rafael Leonidas Trujillo les costó la vida, sacudió los cimientos de la sociedad dominicana y desencadenó...
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Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.
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