Land of the Cranes by Salazar, Aida
Land of the Cranes by Salazar, Aida

Land of the Cranes

From the prolific author of The Moon Within comes the heart-wrenchingly beautiful story in verse of a...
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Author: Aida Salazar
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Language: English
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Land of the Cranes by Salazar, Aida

Land of the Cranes

$211.30
Land of the Cranes by Salazar, Aida

Land of the Cranes

$211.30
Author: Aida Salazar
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
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?



Author: Aida Salazar
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Published: 09/15/2020
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.70w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781338343809
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.1
Point Value: 3
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 510231 / Land of the Cranes


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2020
Horn Book Magazine 07/01/2020 pg. 142
Publishers Weekly 07/20/2020
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 09/01/2020
Booklist 09/01/2020 pg. 105
School Library Journal 11/13/2020 pg. 1
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2020 - Superior,Well Above Average

About the Author
Aida Salazar is an award-winning author and arts activist whose writings for adults and children explore issues of identity and social justice. She is the author of the middle-grade verse novels The Moon Within (International Latino Book Award Winner), Land of the Cranes, and the biography picture book Jovita Wore Pants: The Story of a Revolutionary Fighter. With Yamile Saied Méndez, she is slated to coedit Calling the Moon, a middle-grade anthology on menstruation by writers of color. She is a founding member of Las Musas, a Latinx kidlit debut author collective. Her short story By the Light of the Moon was adapted into a ballet production by the Sonoma Conservatory of Dance and is the first Xicana-themed ballet in history. She lives with her family of artists in a teal house in Oakland, California.
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