Before we were free /Julia Alvarez.
- first Laurel-Leaf edition.
- New York : Dell Laurel-Leaf, (c)2004.
- 183 pages : illustrations, maps ; 18 cm.
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.