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Salazar, Aida

Land of the cranes / by Aida Salazar. - First edition. - 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 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.

Ages 8-12. Scholastic. Grades 4-6. Scholastic.

ISBN: 9781338343809 1338343807

LCCN: 2019028949

Subjects--Corporate Names:
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement--Juvenile fiction.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
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.
Illegal aliens--Juvenile fiction.
Novels in verse
Mexicans--United States--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Immigrants--Fiction.
Illegal aliens--Fiction.
Deportation--Fiction.
Detention of persons--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Juvenile fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Novels in verse
Free verse
Social problem fiction

LC Class. No.: PZ7.5.S23 / Lan 2020

Dewey Class. No.: 813.6 Fic