You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen Reprint Edition Contributor(s): Weatherford, Carole Boston (Author), Weatherford, Jeffery Boston (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 1481449397 ISBN-13: 9781481449397 Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers OUR PRICE: $7.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2017 |
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. |