You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781481449380)

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.

Author: Carole Boston Weatherford
ISBN-10: 1481449389
ISBN-13: 9781481449380
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 05/03/2016
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.70w x 0.50d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6
Point Value: 1
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 183113 / You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 02/01/2016 pg. 126
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2016
Publishers Weekly 03/07/2016
Booklist 04/01/2016 pg. 36
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 04/01/2016
Horn Book Magazine 07/01/2016 pg. 151
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2016 pg. 202 - Superior,Well Above Average