What Tyler Paquette first saw when he woke up, a group of strangers trespassing on his family’s farm. Return to Sender, Julia Alvarez’s captivating and engrossing novel about family and friends takes through the life of two, sixth graders trying to deal with problems beyond their reach. Every moment I spent reading this book furthered my empathy for these characters. Their problems from 12 years ago are still very similar problems that we have on our planet to this day. After his Grandfather recently passing away in June and his father’s unfortunate accident on the farm that has rendered his right arm unusable, Tyler begins to wonder if he has been cursed with awful luck. Over the summer there had been talking in the house of having
