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You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen

You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen

Weatherford, Carole Boston
Weatherford, Jeffery Boston

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ISBN10: 1481449397
ISBN13: 9781481449397
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: Jul 4 2017
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 7.50
Language: English
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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