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Jazz Owls: A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots

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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Margarita Engle, Rudy Gutierrez (Illustrator)Audience:Young AdultPublish date:2018-05-08Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:Atheneum Books for Young ReadersISBN-13:9781534409439ISBN-10:1534409432UPC:9781534409439Book Category:Young Adult NonfictionBook Subcategory:PoetrySize:8.50 x 5.80 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCWHJ1NBBK
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Atheneum Books for Young ReadersISBN-13:9781534409439ISBN-10:1534409432UPC:9781534409439Book Category:Young Adult NonfictionBook Subcategory:PoetrySize:8.50 x 5.80 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCWHJ1NBBK
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 Belpr? 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.

Rudy Gutierrez is an award-winning illustrator whose works have earned him a Pura Belpr? Honor, Am?ricas Book Award, Africana Book Award, and a New York Book Award. He was born in the Bronx and now lives in New Jersey.
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

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