Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Land of the Cranes by Aida Salazar

12 reviews

bookbuyingwithkatie's review

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Pregnancy, Xenophobia, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Child abuse

kaylaboevers's review

emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Police brutality, Racism, Child abuse, Deportation, Grief, Physical abuse, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Blood

ashleycmms's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Xenophobia, Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, and Racism

Moderate: Medical content and Vomit

mandkips's review

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Confinement, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Racial slurs

Minor: Rape and Pedophilia

nova_juniper's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Important. What a beautiful and haunting picture poem. Excellent writing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, Colonisation, Confinement, Xenophobia, Child abuse, Grief, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Racial slurs, Vomit, Gun violence, Pregnancy, and Death

Minor: Child death, Excrement, Miscarriage, Trafficking, Injury/Injury detail, and Pedophilia

avabudavari's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Violence, Child abuse, Confinement, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Sexual assault and Racial slurs

melmoony's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Child abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Blood, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Police brutality, and Xenophobia

Minor: Sexual assault, Rape, and Vomit

library_kb's review

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

This is a hard book to read. It deals with a lot of hard topics--the migrant crisis, inhumane treatment, trauma. The author adjusts this hard content for a younger audience through extended metaphor of cranes, which makes it more accessible to some but also could be hard for some students to follow the story because of all of the figurative language. I listened to the book which was sometimes off-putting because the adult narrator's child voice made her sound even younger than she was supposed to be in the book. I think it is a great book to put into the hands of mature reading 4th-6th graders or adults, because the content is incredibly important, but the interest outside of those two groups might be lower. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Child abuse, and Medical trauma

Minor: Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexual assault

sarahasyouwish's review

challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

This free verse novel packs a lot of power within its covers. It manages to bring heart and humanity to the issues of immigration and deportation in the US by telling the story of one fourth grade girl and her family. This is such a personal story and one I would not hesitate to recommend to middle grade and adult readers. As a white woman who lives in the Midwest, this book really helped me have a more personal understanding of the real-life effects of immigration policy changes over the recent years. Besides being full of heart, this is also beautifully written, and the audiobook is incredibly well done. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Racism, and Confinement

Moderate: Child abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Vomit, Xenophobia, and Blood

carrotcake's review

challenging emotional sad

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Racial slurs, and Violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual assault