Engle, Margarita
Drum dream girl : how one girl's courage changed music poem by Margarita Engle; illustrated by Rafael Lopez - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015 - unpaged : col. ill. ; 26 cm. HB
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 Belpre' Award
9780544102293 0.00
Zaldarriaga, Millo Castro -- Musicians
Inspiration
Biography
Drummers (Musicians) -- Fiction
Drummers (Musicians) -- Biography
Musicians -- Fiction
Dance music -- Fiction
Sex role -- Fiction
UOI - Where we are in place and time - History
927.86 / Z
Drum dream girl : how one girl's courage changed music poem by Margarita Engle; illustrated by Rafael Lopez - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015 - unpaged : col. ill. ; 26 cm. HB
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 Belpre' Award
9780544102293 0.00
Zaldarriaga, Millo Castro -- Musicians
Inspiration
Biography
Drummers (Musicians) -- Fiction
Drummers (Musicians) -- Biography
Musicians -- Fiction
Dance music -- Fiction
Sex role -- Fiction
UOI - Where we are in place and time - History
927.86 / Z