Drum Dream Girl by Margarita Engle & illustrated by Rafael Lopez

 Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music - Kindle edition by Engle, Margarita, López, Rafael. Children Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.


Drum Dream Girl by Margarita Engle & illustrated by Rafael Lopez


  • Historical Fiction

  • Grades: Pre-K-Kindergarten, 1st & 2nd

  • Awards: Pura Belpré Award 2016

 

Summary:

 

Drum Dream Girl is a book about a girl who lives on an island. She dreams of playing conga drums, bongo drums, and timbales. Unfortunately, everyone on the island believed only boys could play drums. The drum dream girl dreamed of drumming and played in secret. She wanted to join her sister’s all-girl band but her father said no because only boys play drums, so the dream girl kept dreaming. After much consideration, her father allowed her to go to a music teacher to see if she could play drums well enough to be heard and the teacher agreed to teach her. After practicing and practicing, the drum dream girl finally got to play drums while her friends and family danced and everyone decided that girls could play drums too. 


Evaluation


Drum Dream Girl is a historical fiction book that I would use in my classroom because it has a realistic setting, Cuba, and it is an exciting way to learn about history. Drum Dream Girl is a reading level appropriate book for second grade and a great resource for encouraging multicultural diversity in the classroom. This book teaches students about a young girl who takes a stand against the gender-biased injustice that is taking place in her town. Drum Dream Girl provides a unique perspective of a child based on how she might feel in the 1930s in Cuba. This book could be utilized in a unit on the author's purpose or a great story to read when studying how people influence local community history.

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