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Print Material

Author

Engle, Margarita.

Title Drum dream girl : how one girl's courage changed music / poem by Margarita Engle ; illustrations by Rafael López.

Publication Info.

Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015]

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Lakeside Everybody Book	E Engle	---	Available
Pittsburg 1st Fl Juvenile Picture Book	PICT Engle	---	Available
Westside Everybody Book	E ENG	---	Available

Description	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
	text txt rdacontent
	still image rdacontent
	unmediated n rdamedia
	volume nc rdacarrier
Source	NBK 3/15 PPLY
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.
Subject	Drummers (Musicians) -- Fiction.
	Dance music -- Fiction.
	Sex role -- Fiction.
	Cuba -- History -- 1909-1933 -- Fiction.
Added Author	López, Rafael, 1961- illustrator.
ISBN	9780544102293 (lib. bdg.)
	0544102290 (lib. bdg.)