TY  - BOOK
N2  - 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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - Land of the cranes /
AU  - Salazar, Aida,
ET  - First edition.
CN  - PZ7.5.S23
CN  - PZ7.5.S23
ID  - 958532
KW  - Mexicans
KW  - Families
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Deportation
KW  - Detention of persons
KW  - Illegal aliens
KW  - Mexicans
KW  - Families
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Deportation
KW  - Detention of persons
SN  - 9781338343809
SN  - 1338343807
TI  - Land of the cranes /
ER  -