Book
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- ALMA POWELL: Children's Collection
- EASTWOOD: Children's Collection
- OSHTEMO: Children's Collection
Land of the cranes
Call Number
- J SALA (EAS, OSH, POW)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Scholastic Press, 2020.
Physical Description
243 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Audience
Grades 4-6. Scholastic.
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 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
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement > 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.
- Noncitizens > Juvenile fiction.
- Novels in verse.
- Mexicans > United States > Fiction.
- Families > Fiction.
- Immigrants > Fiction.
- Noncitizens > Fiction.
- Deportation > Fiction.
- Detention of persons > Fiction.
- Los Angeles (Calif.) > Juvenile fiction.
- Los Angeles (Calif.) > Fiction.