You Can Fly (PB)

ISBN: 9781481449397
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In this “masterful, inspiring evocation of an era” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), 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: pioneering African-American pilots who triumphed in the skies and past the color barrier during 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 Jeffery Weatherford, in a powerful and inspiring book that allows readers to fly, too.

Product details

  • Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition (July 4, 2017)
  • Language : English
  • Paperback : 96 pages
  • ISBN-10 : 1481449397
  • ISBN-13 : 978-1481449397
  • Reading age : 9 - 12 years
  • Lexile measure : 910L
  • Grade level : 4 - 7
  • Item Weight : 4 ounces
  • Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.3 x 7.5 inches
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