cover image BEFORE WE WERE FREE

BEFORE WE WERE FREE

Julia Alvarez, . . Dell/Laurel-Leaf, $5.99 (192pp) ISBN 978-0-440-23784-6

In what PW called "pitch-perfect narration," in a starred review, a 12-year old girl living in the Dominican Republic in 1960 relates the terrors of her country's regime and the attempt to overthrow Trujillo's dictatorship. Ages 12-up. (Apr.)