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Author:

Salazar, Aida, author.

Title:

The land of the cranes / Aida Salazar.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Scholastic Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

1 online resource.

Subject:

Mexicans--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Juvenile fiction.
Families--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Juvenile fiction.
Immigrants--United States--Juvenile fiction.
Deportation--United States--Juvenile fiction.
Detention of persons--United States--Juvenile fiction.
Novels in verse.
Mexicans--United States--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Immigrants--Fiction.
Illegal aliens--Fiction.
Deportation--Fiction.
Detention of persons--Fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Juvenile fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.

Summary:

Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention camp--Betita finds heart in her imagination and the picture poems her father taught her, but each day threatens to further tear her family apart.

ISBN:

1338343904
9781338343908

LCCN:

2019028950

Locations:

BPPB851 -- Cambridge Memorial Library (Cambridge)