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    <title>How the Garcia girls lost their accents</title>
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    <namePart>Alvarez, Julia</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1950-</namePart>
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    <publisher>Plume Book</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1992</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>290 pages ;  21 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Antojos -- The kiss -- The four girls -- Joe -- The Rudy Elmenhurst story -- A regular revolution -- Daughter of invention -- Trespass -- Snow -- Floor show -- Blood of the conquistadores -- The human body -- Still lives -- An American surprise -- The drum.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">by Julia Alvarez.</note>
  <note>Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning UG 6.2 13.</note>
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  <classification authority="lcc">118 PQ 7409 A473ho 1992</classification>
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