Land of the cranes / by Aida Salazar.
2020
PZ7.5.S23 Lan 2020 (Mapit)
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Title
Land of the cranes / by Aida Salazar.
Author
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9781338343809 (hardcover)
1338343807 (hardcover)
9781338343908 (electronic book)
1338343807 (hardcover)
9781338343908 (electronic book)
Published
New York : Scholastic Press, 2020.
Copyright
©2020
Language
English
Description
243 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Call Number
PZ7.5.S23 Lan 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification
813.6 Fic
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.
Awards
Honor winner for the 2021 Janes Addams Books for Older Children Award.
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