Jazz Owls: A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots - Margarita Engle

Descriere Jazz Owls: A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots - Margarita Engle

\nPerfect for history buffs, dance enthusiasts, poets, and just about anyone looking for a great story. --School Library Journal (starred review) \nFrom the Young People's Poet Laureate Margarita Engle comes a searing novel in verse about the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943. \n \nThousands 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 sailors--until the blazing summer night when racial violence leads to murder. \n \nSuddenly the young white sailors are attacking the girls' brothers and boyfriends. The cool, loose zoot suits they wear are supposedly the reason for the violence--when in reality the boys are viciously beaten and arrested simply because of the color of their skin. \n \nIn soaring images and searing poems, this is the breathtaking story of what became known as the Zoot Suit Riots.\n

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Atheneum Books For Young Readers

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ENSTK

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9781534409446

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1

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