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Drum dream girl : how one girl's courage changed music
- Author
- Engle, Margarita, author.
- Title
- Drum dream girl : how one girl's courage changed music / poem by Margarita Engle ; illustrations by Rafael López.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015] ©2015.
- Description
- 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
- Other contributors
- López, Rafael, 1961- illustrator.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical reference (page 39). EAST copy for Family READ program; funding support provided by Women's Philanthropy at Indiana University.
- 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.
- Awards
- Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Winner, 2016
- Subject headings
- Drummers (Musicians)--Juvenile fiction. Dance music--Juvenile fiction. Sex role--Juvenile fiction. Cuba--History--1909-1933--Juvenile fiction.
- Genre heading
- Fiction. History. Juvenile works.
- ISBN
- 9780544102293 paperback 0544102290 paperback
Holdings
- Library
- Columbus - University Library of Columbus
- Call Number
- PZ7.E7158 Dru 2015
- Location
- Teaching Materials Center
- Library
- Kokomo Library
- Call Number
- PZ7.E7158 Dru 2015
- Location
- Children's Collection
- Floor
- 2nd Floor