Bibliograph

Type

Label

Land of the cranes, by Aida Salazar

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

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

Classification