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Alvarez, Julia
HOW THE GARCIA GIRLS LOST THEIR ACCENTS
New York : Plume, 1991.
IL YA
ISBN 0945575572 
This book tells the stories of four sisters -- Carla, Sandi, Yolanda and Sofia from the time they leave their home Island until they all adults living in America. The book follows the Garcia girls' adjustment to life in a new culture. The find out what happens to Carla, her three sisters and her parents in their new country, read HOW THE GARCIA GIRLS LOST THEIR ACCENTS by Julie Alvarez. (Erika H., 8th grade student, Rundlett Middle School, Concord, New Hampshire)

 

SUBJECTS: Sisters -- Fiction
                        Dominican Americans -- Fiction

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