Drum dream girl : how one girl's courage changed music by Engle, Margarita 

BTSB Prebound(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015)

BTSB #: 311468 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
AR: 4.2 LG RC: 4.3 3-5 Lexile: NP

Genres:

Subjects: Drummers (Musicians) - Fiction Dance music - Fiction Gender role - Fiction Cuba - History|y1909-1933 - Fiction

Summary: Follows a girl in the 1920s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there has never been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters.

I am drums by Grosso, Mike 

BTSB Prebound(Clarion, 2016)

BTSB #: 405044 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-12   
AR: 4.6 MG RC: 4.5 6-8 Lexile: 730

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Drummers (Musicians) - Fiction Middle schools - Fiction School stories Gender role - Fiction Interpersonal relations - Fiction Family life - Fiction

Summary: A single-minded twelve-year-old drummer, challenged by her school's budget cuts and her family's financial woes, must find a way to keep her dreams of drumming alive.