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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Julia Alvarez It\'s a long way from Santo Domingo to the Bronx, but if anyone can go the distance, it\'s the Garcia girls. Four lively latinas plunged from a pampered life of privilege on an island compound into t… OL116088W
Yo! Yo! Julia Alvarez "I've been asked if this novel is a sequel to How The García Girls Lost Their Accents. Not at all. The García family and their immigration to the USA were the focus of the first novel. In this novel,… OL116090W
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and he kee… OL7990014W