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Author Engle, Margarita, author.

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

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Atheneum, [2018]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1849144~S1
Location Call No. Status
 95th Street Teen Fiction  TEEN ENGLE    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Teen Fiction  TEEN ENGLE    DISPLAY
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Description 179 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 178).
Subject Zoot Suit Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1943 -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Dance -- Fiction.
Sailors -- Fiction.
Mexican Americans -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Fiction.
Novels in verse.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Genre Young adult fiction.
Added Author Gutierrez, Rudy, illustrator.
ISBN 9781534409439 (hardcover)
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