Julia Alvarezâs novels for young readers include Return to Sender, Finding Miracles, Before We Were Free, and How TÃa Lola Came to Visit Stay, which Kirkus Reviews praised as âsimple, bella, un regalo permanente; simple and beautiful, a gift that will stay.â She is also the award-winning author of How the GarcÃa Girls Lost Their Accents, ÂĄYo!, and In the Time of the Butterflies. She lives in Vermont with her husband and is a writer-in-residence at Middlebury College.