Jazz Owls (ePub)
A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots
(Sprache: Englisch)
"Perfect for history buffs, dance enthusiasts, poets, and just about anyone looking for a great story." School Library Journal (starred review)
From the Young People's Poet Laureate Margarita Engle comes a searing novel in verse about the Zoot Suit...
From the Young People's Poet Laureate Margarita Engle comes a searing novel in verse about the Zoot Suit...
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"Perfect for history buffs, dance enthusiasts, poets, and just about anyone looking for a great story." School Library Journal (starred review)
From the Young People's Poet Laureate Margarita Engle comes a searing novel in verse about the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943.
Thousands of young Navy sailors are pouring into Los Angeles on their way to the front lines of World War II. They are teenagers, scared, longing to feel alive before they have to face the horrors of battle. Hot jazz music spiced with cool salsa rhythms beckons them to dance with the local Mexican American girls, who jitterbug all night before working all day in the canneries. Proud to do their part for the war effort, these Jazz Owl girls are happy to dance with the sailorsuntil the blazing summer night when racial violence leads to murder.
Suddenly the young white sailors are attacking the girls' brothers and boyfriends. The cool, loose zoot suits they wear are supposedly the reason for the violencewhen in reality the boys are viciously beaten and arrested simply because of the color of their skin.
In soaring images and searing poems, this is the breathtaking story of what became known as the Zoot Suit Riots.
From the Young People's Poet Laureate Margarita Engle comes a searing novel in verse about the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943.
Thousands of young Navy sailors are pouring into Los Angeles on their way to the front lines of World War II. They are teenagers, scared, longing to feel alive before they have to face the horrors of battle. Hot jazz music spiced with cool salsa rhythms beckons them to dance with the local Mexican American girls, who jitterbug all night before working all day in the canneries. Proud to do their part for the war effort, these Jazz Owl girls are happy to dance with the sailorsuntil the blazing summer night when racial violence leads to murder.
Suddenly the young white sailors are attacking the girls' brothers and boyfriends. The cool, loose zoot suits they wear are supposedly the reason for the violencewhen in reality the boys are viciously beaten and arrested simply because of the color of their skin.
In soaring images and searing poems, this is the breathtaking story of what became known as the Zoot Suit Riots.
Autoren-Porträt von Margarita Engle
Margarita Engle is the Cuban American author of many books including the verse novels Rima's Rebellion; Your Heart, My Sky; With a Star in My Hand; The Surrender Tree, a Newbery Honor winner; and The Lightning Dreamer. Her verse memoirs include Soaring Earth and Enchanted Air, which received the Pura Belpré Award, a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor, and was a finalist for the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction, among others. Her picture books include Drum Dream Girl, Dancing Hands, and The Flying Girl. Visit her at MargaritaEngle.com.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Margarita Engle
- Altersempfehlung: 12 - 99 Jahre
- 2018, 192 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
- ISBN-10: 1534409459
- ISBN-13: 9781534409453
- Erscheinungsdatum: 08.05.2018
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