Description: Signed by both the author and the artist. 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.
Price: 7.95 USD
Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Signed: Yes
Personalized: No
Original Language: English
Inscribed: No
Book Title: You Can Fly : the Tuskegee Airmen
Number of Pages: 96 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Publication Year: 2016
Item Height: 0.9 in
Topic: Historical / United States / 20th Century, People & Places / United States / African American, Poetry / General, Stories in Verse (See Also Poetry)
Illustrator: Weatherford, Jeffery Boston, Yes
Genre: Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction
Item Weight: 6.1 Oz
Item Length: 7.5 in
Author: Carole Boston Weatherford
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Hardcover
