Topic: Julia Alvarez

The American Education Department reported that 42 percent of children in the American public school system, in 2005, were racial or ethnic minorities. Ages 7 to 10Jacket, Andrew Clements (Antheneum, 2003) - When Phil sees an African American boy wearing his brother's ...

Subject Coffee

For author Julia Alvarez and her husband, starting an organic coffee plantation was a wake-up call October 17, 2007 | By Emily Brady . Persuaded that guilt alone won't get Americans to pay more for environmentally friendly coffee, importers are trying a market ...

AlvArez coffee

Eleven years ago, the Dominican-American writer Julia Alvarez traveled through the Dominican Republic's western mountain region, the Cordillera Central, to write a story about the area for the Nature Conservancy. Near the town of Jarabacoa, Alvarez and her husband, Bill Eichner ...

Family Roam

Round House's world premiere production of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents casts its lot with the breezier, more broadly comic tones of the 1991 Julia Alvarez novel on which it is based, and I can't say as I ...