Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com
Image from Coce

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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780544102293
  • 9781518112119
  • 0544102290
  • 1518112110
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • E ENG 23
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.E7158 Dru 2015
Awards:
  • Pura Belpre Award/Honors, 2016.
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.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
No physical items for this record

School Library Journal starred, January 2015.

Library Media Connection starred, September 2015.

Publisher's Weekly, January 2015.

Kirkus Starred, December 2014.

Booklist, February 2015.

Horn Book, October 2015.

Bulletin (Center for Children's books), May 2015.

Teacher Librarian, December 2015.

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.

3.8.

K-3.

Pura Belpre Award/Honors, 2016.

Diversity collection. Some copies purchased with funds from the Corvallis Public Schools Foundation.

NP Lexile

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.