La tierra de las grullas (Land of the Cranes)
(eBook)

Grouping Information

Book Cover Information

Hoopla Extract Information

stdClass Object
(
    [year] => 2021
    [artist] => Aida Salazar
    [fiction] => 1
    [coverImageUrl] => https://cover.hoopladigital.com/sca_9781338770032_270.jpeg
    [titleId] => 14386343
    [isbn] => 9781338770032
    [abridged] => 
    [language] => SPANISH
    [profanity] => 
    [title] => La tierra de las grullas (Land of the Cranes)
    [demo] => 
    [segments] => Array
        (
        )

    [pages] => 256
    [children] => 1
    [artists] => Array
        (
            [0] => stdClass Object
                (
                    [name] => Aida Salazar
                    [artistFormal] => Salazar, Aida
                    [relationship] => AUTHOR
                )

        )

    [genres] => Array
        (
            [0] => Emigration & Immigration
            [1] => Juvenile Fiction
            [2] => People & Places
            [3] => Poetry
            [4] => Social Themes
            [5] => United States - Hispanic & Latino
        )

    [price] => 0.89
    [id] => 14386343
    [edited] => 
    [kind] => EBOOK
    [active] => 1
    [upc] => 
    [synopsis] => 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.

Betita, de nueve años, sabe que es una grulla. Papi le contó la historia desde antes que su familia emigrara a Los Ángeles buscando refugio de la guerra del narco en México. Los aztecas procedían de un lugar llamado Aztlán, en lo que es hoy el sureste de Estados Unidos, cuyo nombre significa "tierra de las grullas", y establecieron su gran ciudad en el centro del universo: Tenochtitlán, la actual Ciudad de México. Cuenta una profesía que su gente regresaría un día a vivir entre las grullas en la tierra prometida. Papi le dice a Betita que ellos son grullas que han regresado a su hogar.

Un día, el querido padre de Betita es arrestado por el Servicio de Control de Inmigración y Aduanas y deportado a México. Betita y su mamá ingrávida se quedan solas, pero finalmente son también detenidas y deben aprender a sobrevivir en un campamento de detención de familias en las afueras de Los Ángeles. Incluso en estas condiciones crueles e inhumanas, Betita encuentra amparo en su propia poesía y en la comunidad que ella y su madre encuentran en el campamento. Las voces de sus compañeros en busca de asilo vuelan por encima del odio que los mantiene enjaulados y que amenaza cada día con hacerlos caer más bajo de lo que jamás imaginaron. ¿Podrán Betita y su familia volver a ser una sola?

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.
    [url] => https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/14386343
    [pa] => 
    [publisher] => Scholastic Inc.
    [purchaseModel] => INSTANT
)