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Jazz Owls ― A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots
- ISBN13：9781534409439
- 出版社：Atheneum
- 作者：Margarita Engle; Rudy Gutierrez (ILT)
- 裝訂／頁數：精裝／192頁
- 規格：21.6cm*14.6cm*1.9cm (高/寬/厚)
- 出版日：2018/05/08
- 藍思閱讀分級： 1300L
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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 calls 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 sailors—until the blazing summer night when racial violence leads to murder.
Suddenly the young white sailors are attacking these girls’ brothers and boyfriends. The cool, loose zoot suits they wear are supposedly the reason for the violence—when in reality these boys are viciously beaten and arrested simply because of the color of their skin.
In soaring images and powerful poems, this is the breathtaking story of what became known as the Zoot Suit Riots as only Margarita Engle could tell it.
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 calls 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 sailors—until the blazing summer night when racial violence leads to murder.
Suddenly the young white sailors are attacking these girls’ brothers and boyfriends. The cool, loose zoot suits they wear are supposedly the reason for the violence—when in reality these boys are viciously beaten and arrested simply because of the color of their skin.
In soaring images and powerful poems, this is the breathtaking story of what became known as the Zoot Suit Riots as only Margarita Engle could tell it.
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Margarita Engle is the national Young People’s Poet Laureate, and the first Latino to receive that honor. She is the Cuban-American author of many verse novels, including?The Surrender Tree,?a Newbery Honor winner, and?The Lightning Dreamer, a PEN Literary Award for Young Adult Literature winner. Her verse memoir,?Enchanted Air,?received the Pura Belpre Award, a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor, and was a finalist for the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction, among others. Her picture book?Drum Dream Girl?received the Charlotte Zolotow Award. Margarita was born in Los Angeles, but developed a deep attachment to her mother’s homeland during childhood summers with relatives. She continues to visit Cuba as often as she can. Visit her at MargaritaEngle.com.
Rudy Gutierrez is an award-winning illustrator whose works have earned him a Pura Belpre Honor, Americas Book Award, Africana Book Award, and a New York Book Award. He was born in the Bronx and now lives in New Jersey.
Rudy Gutierrez is an award-winning illustrator whose works have earned him a Pura Belpre Honor, Americas Book Award, Africana Book Award, and a New York Book Award. He was born in the Bronx and now lives in New Jersey.
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