Title Land of the cranes / by Aida Salazar.

Publication Info.	New York : Scholastic Press, 2020.
	©2020

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection	CH/YA Fic Salaza Lan 2020	Available	---

Edition	First edition.
Description	243 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
	age Children
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.
Audience	Ages 8-12. Scholastic.
	Grades 4-6. Scholastic.
Awards	Américas Award, 2021
	Honor winner for the 2021 Janes Addams Books for Older Children Award.
Subject	U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement -- Juvenile fiction.
	U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
	Deportation -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.
	Deportation.
	United States.
	Detention of persons -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.
	Detention of persons.
	Families -- California -- Los Angeles -- Juvenile fiction.
	Families.
	California -- Los Angeles.
	Noncitizens -- Juvenile fiction.
	Noncitizens.
	Immigrants -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.
	Immigrants.
	Mexicans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Juvenile fiction.
	Mexicans.
	Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Juvenile fiction.
	Illegal immigration -- Juvenile fiction.
	Illegal immigration.
Genre/Form	Fiction.
	Free verse.
	Juvenile works.
	Novels in verse.
	Social problem fiction.
Other Form:	Online version: Salazar, Aida. Land of the cranes. New York : Scholastic Press, 2020 9781338343908 (DLC) 2019028950
ISBN	1338343807 (hardcover)
	9781338343809 (hardcover)
	9781338343908 (electronic book)

Title Land of the cranes / by Aida Salazar.

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