How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay

A delightfully entertaining story of family and culture from acclaimed author Julia Alvarez. Moving to Vermont after his parents split, Miguel has plenty to worry about! Tia Lola, his quirky,carismatica, and maybe magical aunt makes his life even more unpredictable when she arrives from the Dominican Republic to help out his Mami. Like her stories for adults, Julia Alvarez's first middle-grade book sparkles with magic as it illuminates a child's experiences living in two cultures.

<b>Julia Alvarez </b>is the award-winning author of <i>How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, ¡Yo!, In the Time of the Butterflies, In the Name of Salomé, </i>and a picture book,<i> The Secret Footprints</i>. Her most recent book for young readers is entitled <i>Before We Were Free</i>. She is a writer-in-residence at Middlebury College.