Return to Sender

from corydickason

I tend to find myself underwhelmed by Alvarez, and this is no exception. The main characters are likable, but the book is just too preachy to be really enjoyable. Still, we need books now more than ever that handle the immigration issue sensitively. This is another book that would be a good corne...

from VictoriaF

The novel "Return to Sender" is a story mostly about the life and a family of whose providers are illegal immigration workers. In a Vermont dairy farm a boy's family, Tyler Paquette, were in a hard decision about possibly selling the family farm, this farm has been around in his father's family f...

from VictoriaF

The novel "Return to Sender" is a story mostly about the life and a family of whose providers are illegal immigration workers. In a Vermont dairy farm a boy's family, Tyler Paquette, were in a hard decision about possibly selling the family farm, this farm has been around in his father's family f...

from teacherliz

Tyler is the son of a Vermont farmer who is injured and struggling to make ends meet. That's when Mari's family comes to work for them, allowing them to keep open the farm. Mari and her parents are illegal immigrants from Mexico, but her two youngest siblings are American siblings. The two famili...

from koalatees

Because Tyler's dad has an accident at the farm, the Paquettes have no choice but to hire illegal Mexican workers if they want to keep farming. At first Tyler does not know what to make of these workers. Why would his father, a patriotic man, do something so illegal? Soon, however, Tyler befriend...