Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music - 2016 Pura Belpre Illustrator Award

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Feb 16, 2016 | Filed in Blogs
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music Winner of the 2016 Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Written by Margarita Engle and Illustrated by Rafael López Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2015 Grades PreK - 6 Book Review...
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music Winner of the 2016 Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Written by Margarita Engle and Illustrated by Rafael López Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2015 Grades PreK - 6 Book Review “On an island of music / in a city of drumbeats / the drum dream girl dreamed.” But the island is Cuba, and, here, girls cannot be drummers. In a

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