You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen

Carole Boston Weatherford (Author) Jeffery Boston Weatherford (Illustrator)
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116010
Product Type: Paperback Books
Age Groups: Ages 7 to 9, Ages 10 to 12

From training days in Alabama to combat on the front lines of Europe, this is the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the groundbreaking African American pilots of World War II.

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 Jeffrey Weatherford, in a powerful and inspiring book that allows readers to fly, too.

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SKU 116010
ISBN 9781481449397
Language English
Lexile ® Measure 910L
Page Count 96
Product Type Paperback Books
Book Type Middle Grade Nonfiction
Additional Contributor Jeffery Boston Weatherford
Primary Contributor Carole Boston Weatherford
Age Groups Ages 7 to 9, Ages 10 to 12
Publisher Simon & Schuster, Inc.