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

By:

MS Margarita Engle

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Boston, MA, United States HOUGHTON MIFFLIN 01 Jul 2015Description: 48 pages Hardback 210 x 256 x 12mm | 220gISBN:

9780544102293

Genre/Form:

Circle Time

DDC classification:

813.6 ENG

Summary: Girls cannot be drummers." Long ago on an islandfilled withmusic, no one questioned that rule until the drum dream girl. In her city of drumbeats, she dreamed of pounding tall congas and tapping small bongos. 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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Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Junior Library General Books_Circle Time	Fiction	813.6 ENG	1	Available	General Books_Circle Time Section		1601021001

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Girls cannot be drummers." Long ago on an islandfilled withmusic, no one questioned that rule until the drum dream girl. In her city of drumbeats, she dreamed of pounding tall congas and tapping small bongos. 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." Circle Time - Biography

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