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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
890L
Language
Español
Description
Anita de la Torre es una ni~na de 12 a~nos que vive en la Republica Dominicana en los a~nos sesenta. La policia secreta ha comenzado a atemorizar a su familia porque se sospecha que estan en contra del dictador, General Trujillo.
In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.
Author
Series
Punto de lectura volume 3/5
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Español
Description
Novel about the last year in the dictatorship of Leonidas Trujillo in the Dominican Republic.
Publisher
Videomax
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo after 30 years to face the past -- the horrifying circumstances that altered her life forever when she was a teenager and Rafael Leónidas Trujilla ("El Chivo") was the brutal dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Offers insight into how the Cold War played out in the Caribbean, tracing the rivalries and visions of Fidel and Raúl Castro, Che Guevara, Rafael Trujillo, and François Duvalier and the ways in which they manipulated superpower states.