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Name: Drum Dream Girl : How One Girl's Courage Changed Music
Author: Engle, Margarita
ISBN: [978-0-544-10229-3,0-544-10229-0]

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Drum Dream Girl : How One Girl's Courage Changed Music

Author: Engle, Margarita

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Follett Number: 0959HS9
Audience: Lower Elementary
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015
Format: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
ISBN-13: 978-0-544-10229-3
ISBN-10: 0-544-10229-0
LCCN: 2014-015056
Dewey: -E-
Classifications: Fiction; Easy

Subjects:

Cuba History 1909-1933 Fiction

Dance Music Fiction

Drummers (Musicians) Fiction

Historical Fiction

Sex Role Fiction

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.

From the publisher:
Girls cannot be drummers. Long ago on an island filled with music, no one questioned that rule--until the drum dream girl. In her city of drumbeats, she dreamed of pounding tall congas and tapping small bong s. She had to keep quiet. She had to practice in secret. But when at last her dream-bright music was heard, everyone sang and danced and decided that both girls and boys should be free to drum and dream. Inspired by the childhood of Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, a Chinese-African-Cuban girl who broke Cuba's traditional taboo against female drummers, Drum Dream Girl tells an inspiring true story for dreamers everywhere.

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