Drum dream girl : how one girl's courage changed music /
Engle, Margarita.
Drum dream girl : how one girl's courage changed music / poems by Margarita Engle ; illustrations by Rafael LoÌpez. - 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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.
Pura BelpreÌ Illustrator Award.
9780544102293
2014015056
Drummers (Musicians)--Fiction.
Dance music--Fiction.
Sex role--Fiction.
Cuba--History--1909-1933--Fiction.
Multicultural literature.
PZ7.E7158 / Dru 2015
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Drum dream girl : how one girl's courage changed music / poems by Margarita Engle ; illustrations by Rafael LoÌpez. - 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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.
Pura BelpreÌ Illustrator Award.
9780544102293
2014015056
Drummers (Musicians)--Fiction.
Dance music--Fiction.
Sex role--Fiction.
Cuba--History--1909-1933--Fiction.
Multicultural literature.
PZ7.E7158 / Dru 2015
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