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Title
Drum dream girl : how one girl's courage changed music (40068)
Physical Illustrated
Copyrighted 2015
Audience Primary, Junior High (PJ)
Collection Professional Library
Synopsis 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 a note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters.
Author Engle, Margarita
Added autho López, Rafael
Dimensions 26 cm
ISBN# 9780544102293 (trade)
Notes Keyword: poetry.
Parts 40 unnumbered pages
Stmt Resp poem by Margarita Engle ; illustrations by Rafael López.
Subjects Historical fiction; Biographical fiction; Gender role—Fiction; Drummers (Musicians)—Fiction; Dance music—Fiction; Cuba—History—Fiction; López, Rafael,—1961—-illustrator(A); Picture Books(CK); Picture Perfect STEM(CK); Diversity(CK)
Call# E ENG
Holdings
Book 2 copies
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