Land of the cranes, by Aida Salazar
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Land of the cranes, by Aida Salazar
Language
eng
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Intended audience
890L, Lexile
resource.interestAgeLevel
Ages 8-12, Scholastic
resource.interestGradeLevel
Grades 4-6, Scholastic
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Land of the cranes
Oclc number
1194593541
Responsibility statement
by Aida Salazar
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 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
Target audience
pre adolescent
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Genre
Subject
- Families -- California -- Los Angeles -- Juvenile fiction
- Deportation -- Juvenile fiction
- Immigrants -- Juvenile fiction
- Deportation -- United States -- Juvenile fiction
- Families -- Juvenile fiction
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Juvenile fiction
- Novels in verse
- Detention of persons -- United States -- Juvenile fiction
- Immigrants -- United States -- Juvenile fiction
- Mexicans -- United States -- Juvenile fiction
- Mexicans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Juvenile fiction
- Detention of persons -- Juvenile fiction
- Illegal immigration -- Juvenile fiction
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- Subject13
- Families -- California -- Los Angeles -- Juvenile fiction
- Deportation -- Juvenile fiction
- Immigrants -- Juvenile fiction
- Deportation -- United States -- Juvenile fiction
- Families -- Juvenile fiction
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Juvenile fiction
- Novels in verse
- Detention of persons -- United States -- Juvenile fiction
- Immigrants -- United States -- Juvenile fiction
- Mexicans -- United States -- Juvenile fiction
- Mexicans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Juvenile fiction
- Detention of persons -- Juvenile fiction
- Illegal immigration -- Juvenile fiction
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- Author1
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