Engle, Margarita.

Drum dream girl : how one girl's courage changed music / poems by Margarita Engle ; illustrations by Rafael López. - 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm

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.

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Drummers (Musicians)--Fiction.
Dance music--Fiction.
Sex role--Fiction.


Cuba--History--1909-1933--Fiction.

PZ7.E7158 / Dru 2015

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