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	Salazar, Aida. LAND OF THE CRANES New York : Scholastic Press, 2020. IL 3-6 ISBN: 978-1338343809.
Click on the book to read Amazon reviews	Betita, a young Latinx girl, lover of poetry and Aztec stories, is facing the unthinkable. After escaping violence in Mexico, she and her family seek sanctuary in Los Angeles. When her father is picked up by ICE and deported, Betita and her pregnant mother are adrift. Then mother and daughter are sent to a detention camp where they face isolation and inhumane conditions - though Betita finds community among camp detainees and volunteer workers and uses her poetry to hold on to hope. Will her family ever be reunited?  (Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, 2022)
	SUBJECTS:   Novels in verse.                         Mexicans -- United States -- Fiction.                         Families -- Fiction.                         Immigrants -- Fiction.                         Illegal aliens -- Fiction.                         Deportation -- Fiction.                         Detention of persons -- Fiction.                         Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction.

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