Return to Sender
by Julia Alvarez
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- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Area
- Latinx
Year Published 2009
Word Count 71,721
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 890L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.5
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 127752
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Spanish
- Subject Headings
- Vermont
- Farm life--Vermont--Fiction
- Mexicanx--United States--Fiction
- Illegal aliens--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Friendship
- Friendship--Fiction
- Farm life
- Illegal aliens
- Migrant workers
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Emigration & Immigration
- Migrant labor--Fiction
- Friendship
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - Hispanic & Latino
- Vermont--Fiction
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Lesson Plan from Teaching Latin America through Literature
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Awards & Distinctions 3

Pura Belpré Awards, 1996-2020
Author Winner, 2010

Américas Award, 1993-2020
Winner, 2010

Notable Children's Books, 1995-2020
Commended, 2010
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