Drum, Chavi, Drum! By Mayra L. Dole

The story Drum, Chavi, Drum! By Mayra L. Dole is a greta example of a multicultural book.  The book gives students the story in both english and spanish.  I think this helps ELL students out immensely.  The story is about a young hispanic girl named Chavi who loves to play the drums.  In her culture she is told that girls are not able to play drums.  Chavi does not care what anyone says.  Chavi is determined to play drums.  There ends up being a school parade that Chavi really wants to drum in and the school tells her she can't because she is a girl.  Chavi ends up dressing up like a boy and sneaking into play.  She surprises as well as amazes everyone with her talent and becomes the first girl drummer in her school.  I though the quality of the story was a little off because of the story line and how they talked about drummers only being males.  I might incorporate this story in  my classroom if I was teaching the children about different careers and I wanted them to see that no matter what, they can be or do anything. This book might be a good read for an ELL learner when discussing the career path topic.

Note:  This book is one of the Multicultural books