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

Jazz Owls: A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots

From the Young People's Poet Laureate Margarita Engle comes a searing novel in verse about the Zoot...
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Author: Margarita Engle
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Jazz Owls: A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots by Engle, Margarita

Jazz Owls: A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots

$42.39
Jazz Owls: A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots by Engle, Margarita

Jazz Owls: A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots

$42.39
Author: Margarita Engle
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
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.

Author: Margarita Engle
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 05/08/2018
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.80w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781534409439
Audience: Young Adult

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.8
Point Value: 2
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 508812 / Jazz Owls: A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 02/01/2018 pg. 48
School Library Journal 02/01/2018 pg. 93
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 05/01/2018
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2018
Voice of Youth Advocates 04/01/2018 - Recommended - Hard To Beat
Horn Book Magazine 05/01/2018 pg. 129
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2018 - Superior,Well Above Average

About the Author
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.

Rudy Gutierrez is an award-winning illustrator whose works have earned him a Pura Belpré Honor, Américas 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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