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Title Jazz owls : a novel of the Zoot Suit Riots / Margarita Engle ; art by Rudy Gutierrez.
Author Engle, Margarita, author.
Publisher New York : Atheneum, [2018]
Copyright ©2018
Description 179 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Edition First edition.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references (page 178).
Summary In early 1940s Los Angeles, Mexican Americans Marisela and Lorena work in canneries all day then jitterbug with sailors all night with their zoot suit wearing younger brother, Ray, as escort until the night racial violence leads to murder. Includes historical note.
Audience Ages 12 up.
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Other edition Online version: Engle, Margarita, author. Jazz owls First edition. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2018] 9781534409453
Subject Zoot Suit Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1943 -- Juvenile fiction.
Race relations -- Juvenile fiction.
Dance -- Juvenile fiction.
Sailors -- Juvenile fiction.
Mexican Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre Novels in verse.
Young adult fiction.
Add'l Names Gutierrez, Rudy, illustrator.
Other title Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots
ISBN 9781534409439
1534409432
9781534409446
1534409440