Book
Jazz Owls: A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots
- Published
- 2018
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Pages
- 192
- Words
- 13310
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 6.8
- AR interest level
- MG+ — upper middle grades, 6–8
- Lexile
- 1300L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 12–17
In early 1940s Los Angeles, Mexican Americans Marisela and Lorena work all day and then jitterbug with sailors all night while their zoot-suit-wearing younger brother, Ray, deals with prejudices.
Collections
ALSC Notables
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9781534409439
- ISBN-10
- 1534409432
Tags
ALSC NotablesFamily Life-SistersHistorical FictionHistory-World War II EraJazzPeople-Mexican AmericanPoetrySocial Issues-Prejudice & DiscriminationUnited States-California