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Author:

Engle, Margarita, author.

Title:

Jazz owls : a novel of the Zoot Suit Riots / Margarita Engle ; illustrated by Rudy Gutierrez.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Atheneum Books for Young Readers,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

pages cm

Subject:

Zoot Suit Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1943--Juvenile fiction.
Novels in verse.
Zoot Suit Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1943--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.
Dancing--Fiction.
Sailors--Fiction.
Mexican Americans--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--United States--Fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Zoot Suit Riots (Los Angeles, California : 1943)
California--Los Angeles.
1943
Fiction.
Juvenile works.

Other Authors:

Gutierrez, Rudy, illustrator.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

ISBN:

1534409440
9781534409446
1534409432
9781534409439

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1000447275

LCCN:

2017024247

Locations:

FYPI314 -- Dubuque County Library - Asbury Branch (Asbury)

OEPC877 -- Bedford Public Library (Bedford) — JF H

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

YCPD572 -- Hiawatha Public Library (Hiawatha)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)