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Author Engle, Margarita, author

Title Drum Dream Girl : How One Girl's Courage Changed Music / poem by Margarita Engle ; illustrations by Rafael López

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 Farmington Juvenile  PZ7.E7158 Dru 2015    AVAILABLE  
Phys Descr 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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
Note Includes bibliographical reference (page 39)
Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Winner, 2016
Subject Drummers (Musicians) -- Juvenile fiction
Dance music -- Juvenile fiction
Sex role -- Juvenile fiction
Cuba -- History -- 1909-1933 -- Juvenile fiction
Cuba -- History -- 1909-1933 -- Fiction
Alt Author López, Rafael, 1961- illustrator
OCLC # 879538850
ISBN # 9780544102293
0544102290