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Drum dream girl : how one girl's courage changed music / poem by Margarita Engle ; illustrations by Rafael López.
Van Pelt Library PZ7.E7158 Dru 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Engle, Margarita, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drummers (Musicians)--Juvenile fiction.
- Drummers (Musicians).
- Dance music--Juvenile fiction.
- Dance music.
- Sex role--Juvenile fiction.
- Sex role.
- History.
- Cuba--History--1909-1933--Juvenile fiction.
- Cuba.
- Drummers (Musicians)--Fiction.
- Dance music--Fiction.
- Sex role--Fiction.
- Cuba--History--1909-1933--Fiction.
- Cuba--1909-1933--History.
- Genre:
- Curriculum resource.
- Sophisticated picture books.
- Dance music.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015]
- Summary:
- Follows a girl in the 1920s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there has never been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical reference (page 39).
- Charlotte Zolotow Award, 2016
- Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature - Picture Book, Honor, 2015-2016
- Pura Belpré Award - Illustration, Winner, 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780544102293
- 0544102290
- OCLC:
- 879538850
- Publisher Number:
- 99967273204
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