The Land of the Cranes
New York : Scholastic Press, 2020.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 243 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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.
Subjects:
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.
Novels in verse -- Juvenile fiction.
Mexicans -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.
Families -- Juvenile fiction.
Immigrants -- Juvenile fiction.
Noncitizens -- Juvenile fiction.
Deportation -- Juvenile fiction.
Detention of persons -- Juvenile fiction.
Illegal immigration -- Juvenile fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Juvenile fiction.
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.
Novels in verse -- Juvenile fiction.
Mexicans -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.
Families -- Juvenile fiction.
Immigrants -- Juvenile fiction.
Noncitizens -- Juvenile fiction.
Deportation -- Juvenile fiction.
Detention of persons -- Juvenile fiction.
Illegal immigration -- Juvenile fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Juvenile fiction.
Target Audience: Ages 8-12.
ISBN:
9781338343809
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C Salazar | Blythewood | Children's Fiction | In |
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