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Salazar, Aida, author.

The land of the cranes / by Aida Salazar.

First edition.

New York : Scholastic Press, 2020.

©2020

243 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

2020

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.

8-12 Brodart.

3-7 Brodart.

Mexicans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Juvenile fiction.

Families -- California -- Los Angeles -- Juvenile fiction.

Immigrants -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.

Deportation -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.

Detention of persons -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.

Mexicans -- United States -- Fiction.

Families -- Fiction.

Immigrants -- Fiction.

Illegal aliens -- Fiction.

Deportation -- Fiction.

Detention of persons -- Fiction.

Novels in verse.

Illegal aliens -- Juvenile fiction.

JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / Hispanic & Latino

JUVENILE FICTION / Poetry

JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Emigration & Immigration

Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Juvenile fiction.

Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction.

Publishers Weekly, July 20, 2020

Kirkus Reviews, June 01, 2020

Booklist, September 01, 2020

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, September 01, 2020

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