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Author:

Salazar, Aida, author.

Title:

La tierra de las grullas / Aida Salazar ; [translated by Abel Berriz].

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Scholastic Inc.,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

243 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

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.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement--Juvenile fiction.
Illegal aliens--Juvenile fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Juvenile fiction.
Spanish language materials.
Novels in verse.
Free verse.
Social problem fiction.

Other Authors:

Berriz, Abel, translator.

Other Titles:

Land of the cranes Spanish

Notes:

"Originall published in English as Land of the Cranes."--Title page verso.

Summary:

Betita, de nueve ąos, y sus padres huyeron de M̌xico despǔs de que los c̀rteles mataran a su t̕o, y se establecieron en Los ℓngeles en busca de asilo pol̕tico y seguridad en lo que su padre llama Aztl̀n, la tierra de las grullas; Pero ahora han sido barridos por el Servicio de Control de Aduanas de Inmigraci̤n del gobierno, su padre deportado a M̌xico y Betita y su madre confinadas en un campo de detenci̤n familiar - Betita encuentra coraz̤n en su imaginaci̤n y los poemas ilustrados que su padre le ensę̤, pero cada d̕a amenaza con destrozar a͠n m̀s a su familia.
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 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:

1338767542
9781338767544

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1267987424

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

BVPE851 -- Nevada Public Library (Nevada)

AWPD207 -- Osceola Public Library (Osceola)

CQPE926 -- Washington Free Public Library (Washington)