TY  - BOOK
AU  - Salazar,Aida
TI  - Land of the cranes
SN  - 9781338343809
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Scholastic Press
KW  - Mexicans
KW  - California
KW  - Los Angeles
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - United States
KW  - Families
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Deportation
KW  - Detention of persons
KW  - Illegal aliens
KW  - Undocumented immigrants
KW  - Los Angeles (Calif.)
KW  - Novels in verse
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Ages 8-12; Scholastic; Grades 4-6; Scholastic
N2  - 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
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