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One: Summer 2005

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Alvarez, Julia. Return to Sender. Yearling. 2009. Paperback.

• The novel is told from two main points of view.

• The first is the third-person viewpoint of Tyler Paquette, the son of a Vermont farmer.

• The second is the first-person viewpoint of Mari Cruz, a young girl who is an illegal immigrant from Mexico.

• In One: Summer 2005, “Bad-Luck Farm,” Tyler looks out his bedroom window and sees what looks like Indians coming from the trailer where the hired help usually stays.

• He runs downstairs.

• His mother is helping his father do his physical therapy exercises.

• On television, Oprah is interviewing a woman who came back from the dead.

• Tyler tells his parents that there are some Indians trespassing.

• Tyler’s father mutes the TV and tells Tyler to calm down.

• He asks if Tyler wants to...

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