You Can Fly : The Tuskegee Airmen
Overview
In this "masterful, inspiring evocation of an era" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), ALSC Children's Literature Legacy Award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford "wields the power of poetry to tell [the] gripping historical story" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) of the Tuskegee Airmen. I WANT YOU! says the poster of Uncle Sam. But if you're a young black man in 1940, he doesn't want you in the cockpit of a war plane. Yet you are determined not to let that stop your dream of flying. So when you hear of a civilian pilot training program at Tuskegee Institute, you leap at the chance. Soon you are learning engineering and mechanics, how to communicate in code, how to read a map. At last the day you've longed for is here: you are flying! From training days in Alabama to combat on the front lines in Europe, this is the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the groundbreaking African-American pilots of World War II. In vibrant second-person poems, Carole Boston Weatherford teams up for the first time with her son, artist Jeffery Weatherford, in a powerful and inspiring book that allows readers to fly, too.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781481449397
- ISBN-10: 1481449397
- Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
- Publish Date: July 2017
- Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.25 pounds
- Page Count: 96
- Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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