Land of the cranes / by Aida Salazar.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Scholastic Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First editionDescription: 243 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781338343809
- 1338343807
- Mexicans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Juvenile fiction
- Mexicans -- United States -- 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
- Undocumented immigrants
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Juvenile fiction
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Fiction | SALAZAR AIDA | Available | 33111009754066 | ||||
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | SALAZAR AIDA | Available | 33111010402044 | ||||
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Northport Library | Children's Fiction | SALAZAR AIDA | Available | 33111009017480 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From the prolific author of The Moon Within comes the heart-wrenchingly beautiful story in verse of a young Latinx girl who learns to hold on to hope and love even in the darkest of places: a family detention center for migrants and refugees.
Nine-year-old Betita knows she is a crane. Papi has told her the story, even before her family fled to Los Angeles to seek refuge from cartel wars in Mexico. The Aztecs came from a place called Aztlan, what is now the Southwest US, called the land of the cranes. They left Aztlan to establish their great city in the center of the universe-Tenochtitlan, modern-day Mexico City. It was prophesized that their people would one day return to live among the cranes in their promised land. Papi tells Betita that they are cranes that have come home.
Then one day, Betita's beloved father is arrested by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and deported to Mexico. Betita and her pregnant mother are left behind on their own, but soon they too are detained and must learn to survive in a family detention camp outside of Los Angeles. Even in cruel and inhumane conditions, Betita finds heart in her own poetry and in the community she and her mother find in the camp. The voices of her fellow asylum seekers fly above the hatred keeping them caged, but each day threatens to tear them down lower than they ever thought they could be. Will Betita and her family ever be whole again?
Ages 8-12. Scholastic.
Grades 4-6. Scholastic.
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.