Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music
by Margarita Engle and Rafael López
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- Grade
- PK-2
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Poetry
- Cultural Area
- Latinx
- Women / Girls
Year Published 2015
Word Count 378
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: Currently Not Available
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.2
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 173968
- Curricular Area
- Music
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Cuba--History--1909-1933--Fiction
- Drummers (Musicians)
- Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction
- Dance music--Fiction
- Sex role
- Cuba
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Music
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Girls & Women
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Music | General
- 1909-1933
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Poetry | General
- Dance music
- Sex role--Fiction
- History
- Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | Caribbean & Latin America
- Drummers (Musicians)--Fiction
- Lists With This Book
- Peace and Social Justice
- Latinas Who Made a Difference
- Latinx and Latin American Elementary
- Latinx and Latin American Secondary
- Afro-Latinx Titles
- Elementary Resources for District eBooks
- 4th EL Module 1: Poetry, Poets, and...
- Benchmark Trade Books, Grade 1
- Diverse Lit Kits, K-3
- Black Lives Matter: Globalism
- Black Lives Matter: Black Women
- Cuba
Our Original Resources 8
Meet-the-Author Recording with Rafael López about Drum Dream Girl
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Margarita Engle about Drum Dream Girl
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Audio Name Pronunciation with Rafael López
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Audio Name Pronunciation with Margarita Engle
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TeachingBooks Guest Blogger: Rafael López “Stirring the Pot of Color: Illustrating Picture Books”
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Nonfiction Read and Respond Multi-Leveled Lesson
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Cultural Representation Reflection
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Book Guides, Activities & Lessons 5
Nonfiction Read and Respond Multi-Leveled Lesson
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Cultural Representation Reflection
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Discussion Guide from Harcourt
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Teaching Ideas from Classroom Bookshelf
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Lesson Plan from Eastern Connecticut State Univ. Dept. of Education
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Book Readings 1

Audiobook Excerpt narrated by Adriana Sananes
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Book Trailers 2

Video Book Trailer from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Video Book Trailer from Dreamscape Media
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Awards & Distinctions 12

Américas Award, 1993-2020
Commended, 2016

Charlotte Zolotow Award, 1998-2020
Winner, 2016

Rise: A Feminist Book Project Top Ten, 2011-2020
Commended, 2016

Pura Belpré Awards, 1996-2021
Illustrator Winner, 2016

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2016

Notable Children's Books, 1995-2021
Commended, 2016

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2020
Selection, 2016

International Latino Book Awards, 2000-2020
First Place Winner, 2016

Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books, 2013-2020
Selection, 2015

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2020
Selection, 2015
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