You can fly : the Tuskegee Airmen / Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Jeffery Boston Weatherford.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2016]Description: 80 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781481449380
- 1481449389
- 9781481449397
- 1481449397
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| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Fiction | Weatherf Carole B | Available | 33111008178606 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-78).
Includes filmograpgy (pages 79-80).
Grades 4-6.
This history in verse celebrates the story of the Tuskegee Airmen: pioneering African-American pilots who triumphed in the skies and past the color barrier.