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You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen
Carole Boston Weatherford, HardcoverOriginal price was: $17.99.$15.29Current price is: $15.29.
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Award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford’s innovative history in verse celebrates the story of the Tuskegee Airmen: pioneering African-American pilots who triumphed in the skies and past the color barrier.
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 flyingFrom 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.Description
Binding Type: Hardcover
Contributors: Carole Boston Weatherford, Jeffery Boston Weatherford (Illustrator)
Published: 05/03/2016
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9781481449380
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.70w x 0.50d
Additional information
Weight | 0.4 lbs |
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Dimensions | 7.8 × 5.7 × 0.5 in |
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