Drum dream girl : how one girl's courage changed music / poems by Margarita Engle ; illustrations by Rafael López.
2015
CMC AWD FIC Eng Dru 2015 (Mapit)
Available at Children's Materials Collection
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Title
Drum dream girl : how one girl's courage changed music / poems by Margarita Engle ; illustrations by Rafael López.
Author
ISBN
9780544102293 (hardcover)
0544102290 (hardcover)
0544102290 (hardcover)
Published
Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015]
Language
English
Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Call Number
CMC AWD FIC Eng Dru 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical reference (page [39]).
Audience
NP Lexile
Awards
Pura Belpre Illustrator Award, 2016.
Charlotte Zolotow Award, 2016.
Charlotte Zolotow Award, 2016.
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