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Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
FINALIST FOR THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION
Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Entertainment Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, BuzzFeed, Bustle, and Electric Literature
"There was a time I would have called Lisa Ko's novel beautifully written, ambitious, and moving, and all of that is true, but it's more than that now: if you want to understand a forgotten and essential part of the world we live in, The Leavers is required reading." -Ann...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
Español
Description
Betita, de nueve as, sabe que es una grulla. Papi le conta historia desde antes que su familia emigrara a Los geles buscando refugio de la guerra del narco en Mico. Los aztecas procedn de un lugar llamado Aztl, 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: Tenochtitl la actual Ciudad de Mco. Cuenta una profes que su gente regresarun da vivir entre...
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