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

Author: Margarita Engle Year: 2015 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Children, Picture books, Music, Biographies, Poetry Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780544102293 9781520018171 0544102290 1520018177

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 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. Similar books: All the Way to Havana by Margarita Engle A River of Words by Jen Bryant Enormous Smallness by Matthew Burgess Papa Is a Poet by Natalie S. Bober Miss Mary Mack by Mary Ann Hoberman Pablo Neruda by Monica Brown Langston's Train Ride by Robert Burleigh I See the Rhythm by Toyomi Igus Before She Was Harriet by Lesa Cline-Ransome Dave the Potter by Laban Carrick Hill Coretta Scott by Ntozake Shange 28 Days by Charles R. Smith Jr. Jazz Day by Roxane Orgill Muddy by Michael Mahin Josephine by Patricia Hruby Powell The Lady with the Alligator Purse by Nadine Bernard Westcott Schomburg by Carole Boston Weatherford Ode to an Onion by Alexandria Giardino Emma's Poem by Linda Glaser Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix by Gary Golio