Julia Alvarez

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1991
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Tia Lola

1 - How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay (Apr-2001)
2 - How Tia Lola Learned to Teach (Oct-2010)
3 - How Tia Lola Saved the Summer (May-2011)
4 - How Tia Lola Ended Up Starting Over (Sep-2011)

Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

    When their father's part in a plot against a cruel dictator forces them to flee the Dominican Republic, the Garcia sisters--Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofia--come to America. But 1960s New York City is vastly different from the genteel, if troubling...

  • In the Time of the Butterflies

    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 ...

  • Yo!

    "Charming and funny . . . Mesmerizing . . . Wonderful.” -- USA Today   Yolanda García--Yo, for short--is the literary one in the family. Her first published novel, in which uses as characters practically everyone she know...

  • In the Name of Salome

    "Original and illuminating." -- The New York Times Book Review In her most ambitious work since In the Time of Butterflies, Julia Alvarez tells the story of a woman whose poetry inspired one Caribbean revolution and of her daughter whose dedication t...

  • The Secret Footprints

    The Dominican legend of the ciguapas, creatures who lived in underwater caves and whose feet were on backward so that humans couldn't follow their footprints, is reinvented by renowned author Julia Alvarez. Although the ciguapas fear humans, Guapa, a...

  • How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay

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    An endearing family story from the international bestselling author of How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies"This twist on a classic story demonstrates that difficult transitions can be eased by new connections. O...

  • A Cafecito Story

    A Cafecito Story is a story of love, coffee, birds and hope. It is a beautifully written eco-fable by best-selling author Julia Alvarez. Based on her and her husband's experiences trying to reclaim a small coffee farm in her native Dominican Republic...

  • Before We Were Free

    I wonder what it would be like to be free? Not to need wings because you don't have to fly away from your country? From award-winning author Julia Alvarez comes the story of Anita de la Torre, a twelve-year-old girl living in the Dominican Republi...

  • Finding Miracles

    MILLY KAUFMAN IS an ordinary American teenager living in Vermont -- until she meets Pablo, a new student at her high school. His exotic accent, strange fashion sense, and intense interest in Milly force her to confront her identity as an adopted chil...



  • Saving the World

    Latina novelist Alma Huebner is suffering from writer's block and is years past the completion date for yet another of her bestselling family sagas. Her husband, Richard, works for a humanitarian organization dedicated to the health and prosperity of...

  • Return to Sender

    After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. Tyler isn’ t sure what to make of these workers. Are they undocumented? And what about the three daug...

  • How Tia Lola Learned to Teach

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    Tía Lola has been invited to teach Spanish at her niece and nephew’s elementary school. But Miguel wants nothing to do with the arrangement. He hasn’t had an easy time adjusting to his new school in Vermont and doesn’t like living so far away ...

  • A Gift of Gracias

    After their olive crop fails, Maria fears that her family will have to abandon their farm on the new island colony. Then, one night she dreams of a mysterious beautiful lady shrouded by trees with branches hung with hundreds of little suns. They are ...

  • How Tia Lola Saved the Summer

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    Miguel Guzman isn't exactly looking forward to the summer now that his mother has agreed to let the Sword family -- a father, his three daughters, and their dog -- live with them while they decide whether or not to move to Vermont. Little does Mi...

  • How Tia Lola Ended Up Starting Over

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    Welcome to Tia Lola's bed and breakfast! With the help of her niece and nephew and the three Sword Sisters, Ta Lola is opening the doors of Colonel Charlebois' grand old Vermont house to visitors from all over. But Ta Lola and the children soon rea...

  • A Wedding in Haiti

  • Afterlife

    Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies. And then more jolts: her bighearted...

  • Already a Butterfly

    Already a Butterfly is a gentle picture book tale about self-soothing practices and self-confidence beliefs.With so much to do in so little time, Mari is constantly on the move, flitting from flower to flower, practicing her camouflage poses, and pla...

  • The Teeny Tiny Amargasaurus

    The teeny tiny amargasaurus finds a footprint with five toes. He looks around to see which dinosaur they belong to, but all the dinosaurs he finds only have three or four toes. When he finally finds his five-toed friend, he's in for a surprise. It is...



  • The Cemetery of Untold Stories

    Literary icon and great American novelist Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, returns with a luminescent novel about storytelling that reads like an instant ...

Award-Winning Books by Julia Alvarez

Before We Were Free
2002 Americas Award for Children & Young Adult Literature -- Fiction
Return to Sender
2010 Americas Award for Children & Young Adult Literature -- Children/Young Adult


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Julia Alvarez has published 20 books.

Julia Alvarez does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Cemetery of Untold Stories, was published in April 2024.

The first book by Julia Alvarez, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, was published in January 1991.

Yes. Julia Alvarez has 1 series.
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