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Return to Sender Hardcover – January 13, 2009

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  • Age Range: 8 - 12 years
  • Grade Level: 3 - 7
  • Lexile Measure: 890L (What's this?)
  • Series: AWARDS: ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2010
  • Hardcover: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition (January 13, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0375858385
  • ISBN-13: 978-0375858383
  • Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1.2 x 8.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (100 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,117,856 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsRichie's Picks: RETURN TO SENDER
By N. S. VINE VOICE on February 22, 2009
Format: Hardcover
To the parents of eleven-year-old Tyler Paquette, the family of Mexican workers who have come to live in the trailer on their Vermont dairy farm are angels.

Tyler had actually seen the tractor roll over, trapping his father underneath. He's had horrible nightmares about it ever since. If Tyler had not been there to call 9-1-1, his father wouldn't be alive today. Nevertheless, his father may never recover the full use of his arm and leg and -- given that Tyler's big brother is heading off to college at the end of the summer and his teenage sister is about as likely to help with the cows as my teenage daughter is to help me tend to my dairy goats (NOT!) -- it had been looking like Tyler might never have the opportunity to grow up to become a fifth-generation Vermont family farmer.

"I remember the fear of serpents, the sharp rocks, the lights of la migra. And always, the terrible thirst...I am not sure even this paper can hold such terrifying memories."

Mari is Tyler's age. She is an illegal alien. She has arrived on a bus from North Carolina with her illegal alien father, her two illegal alien uncles, and her two little sisters who were born in North Carolina. Last winter Mari's mom suddenly returned to their homeland in southern Mexico because her mother -- Mari's Abulita -- was dying. Now the family has lost contact with Mama who is hopefully still alive and presumably still trying to sneak across the border and return to North Carolina.

Fearing potential repercussions, Mari's father has persuaded her not to try to actually mail any of the long letters that she has been writing to Mama. But how, then, might the family ever become reunited?

"That is why I am writing, Mama.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsA timely book for young people (and the not-so-young
By Eric Selby on August 4, 2009
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I want to disclose that I know the author, but only slightly, and I lived for many years in both Middlebury and Bridport, Vermont. (Bridport is often called Bridgeport by out-of-staters passing through.) So when I see an acknowledgment to Jerry and Cheryl Connor, who own a large and beautiful farm in Bridport, I know I am in once familiar territory. But those were years ago. Today I live in Miami Beach where Spanish dominates English. So let me begin by saying one of the biggest pluses is how skillfully Dr. Alvarez has incorporated Spanish into the text. It reads so smoothly and should be very inviting to those who do not speak Spanish. And in my opinion, Spanish is a beautiful language to hear. (I also teach writing at a local college. Many of my students speak Spanish as their first language, so unlike what my classrooms were like in Vermont.)
The characters are delightful. When I grew up in Vermont, it was French-Canadians who populated the migrant farm workers. Maybe today there are more Mexicans. This I would not know. But the story is believable and takes the reader through the complete annual cycle of a farm.
However, I could not give this the fifth star for one reason. I have taught all my adult life. Maria's letters are not the letters of a girl her age. I think children and young adults reading this would not object. But as an adult reader--and a voracious one--I don't like having to suspend my belief system for an entire novel. And that is what I had to do because those letters back home to the absent mother in Mari's life are too perfect, letters that a more mature Mari would have composed. Having said that, I realize that the standards for young adult fiction are different than those for adult fiction.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsLook into the Heavens
By Walt Eddy on March 26, 2009
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Julia Alvarez knows how to characterize the blur in the line between right and wrong. She knows how to make it clear that reality and morality are continuums and not dichotomies of this or that, up or down, or yes or no. There are no absolutes. (Now, there's an oxymoron.) We have a long way to go.

Alvarez begins with a young man, her protagonist, Tyler, the younger eleven-year-old son in a family who has survived and thrived by running a dairy farm in Vermont. The family's farming heritage is at risk. Tyler's older brother is away at college, mostly unavailable to help out on the farm without jeopardizing his education and eventual career, and Tyler's father has been injured and disabled, perhaps permanently, in a farming accident. Tyler's father can't do the work he normally did. It is unclear when and if he ever will be able to do the work again. Extended family also can't adequately help out. So paying the bills and keeping the farm is at risk. The family needs help or to change their dynamics: selling the farm, moving from their land, doing something entirely different than farming.

Tyler's parents eventually hire undocumented immigrants --- a couple of men --- to assist with the dairy work. One of the immigrant men is married and has three daughters. The oldest, Mari, slowly becomes Tyler's friend and ally, an unfolding as miraculous as springtime. Mari's mother has disappeared in the murky criminal element that arose to fulfill the void created by ambiguities in United States immigrant policies, underfunded policies that for years tacitly approved of undocumented immigrants coming to the United States to work in jobs that citizens in better times didn't want to do.Read more ›
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1.0 out of 5 starsI did not like it

I hated this book it spoke in third persons the base stunk and in all this book was not setup well

Published 2 months ago by Heather Darby
5.0 out of 5 starsgood read and good book

great book and great text size

Published 2 months ago by Donna G.
4.0 out of 5 starsGood book.

This was a pretty good book. I read it with my son. I would have given it 5 stars but I didn't like how the author told a lot of the story through letters. Read more

Published 3 months ago by Arizona Mom
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Excellent book. My 9 year old daughter loved it. The topic provided good conversation material to talk about immigration.

Published 6 months ago by World peace
5.0 out of 5 starsA recommended Read.

Educational and enjoyable. A story that is so true to today's news.

Published 7 months ago by Penelope Wesley
5.0 out of 5 starsUsing Return to Sender in the Classroom

"I call my type of inspiration `the pebble in my shoe' inspiration, that little pebble I can't seem to shake out of my mind! Life gives me a lot of them. Read more

Published 8 months ago by Vamos a Leer
1.0 out of 5 starsUnrealistic and Contrived

Esperanza Rising is a wonderful book and I was looking for a companion text so I was thrilled when I found Return to Sender. Read more

Published 8 months ago by Melaney Sanchez
5.0 out of 5 starsA heart felt story of a family just trying to make it on the farm.

A story told through the eyes of a 11 years old boy who's family needed help on their farm. And of the girl he befriended of a immigration family -- legal and illegal.

Published 10 months ago by charlotte e
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

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Published 11 months ago by liangshen
5.0 out of 5 starsReturn to Sender places a human face on the immigrants ...

Return to Sender places a human face on the immigrants who make their way to the United States and to the families who benefit from their labor. Read more

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