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You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen Reprint Edition
Contributor(s): Weatherford, Carole Boston (Author), Weatherford, Jeffery Boston (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1481449397     ISBN-13: 9781481449397
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
OUR PRICE:   $7.19  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 2017
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Stories In Verse (see Also Poetry)
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical - United States - 20th Century
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - United States - African-american
Dewey: 811.6
LCCN: 2015012393
Lexile Measure: 910
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.5" W x 7.5" (0.25 lbs) 96 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Chronological Period - 1940's
- Cultural Region - Western Europe
- Geographic Orientation - Alabama
- Cultural Region - Southeast U.S.
- Cultural Region - South
- Topical - Black History
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 183113
Reading Level: 6.0   Interest Level: Lower Grades   Point Value: 1.0
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
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.

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.


Contributor Bio(s): Weatherford, Jeffery Boston: - Jeffery Boston Weatherford created the scratchboard illustrations for You Can Fly using archival World War II photographs as reference. Jeffery studied art at Winston-Salem State University, where he was a Chancellor's Scholar, and at Howard University, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts.Weatherford, Carole Boston: - Carole Boston Weatherford has written many award-winning books for children, including Caldecott Honor winners Freedom in Congo Square; Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement; and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. Her recent books include By and By, The Roots of Rap, Be a King, How Sweet the Sound, In Your Hands, and The Legendary Miss Lena Horne. Carole lives in North Carolina. Visit her at CBWeatherford.com.