Julia Alvarez’s novels for young readers include Return to Sender, Finding Miracles, Before We Were Free, and How Tía Lola Came to Visit Stay, which Kirkus Reviews praised as “simple, bella, un regalo permanente; simple and beautiful, a gift that will stay.” She is also the award-winning author of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, ¡Yo!, and In the Time of the Butterflies. She lives in Vermont with her husband and is a writer-in-residence at Middlebury College.
