| You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen Contributor(s): Weatherford, Carole Boston (Author), Weatherford, Jeffery Boston (Illustrator) |
|||||||
 |
ISBN: 1481449389 ISBN-13: 9781481449380 Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: May 2016 |
||||||
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | History - Military & Wars - Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places - United States - African-american - Juvenile Nonfiction | Poetry - General |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2015012393 |
| Age Level: 9-12 |
| Grade Level: 4-7 |
| Lexile Measure: 910(Not Available) |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.7" W x 7.8" L (0.40 lbs) 96 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 1940's - Topical - Black History - Geographic Orientation - Alabama - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
| Features: Bibliography, Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product |
| Review Citations: 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 |
| 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. |
| Customers who bought this item also bought... |
| Customer ReviewsSubmit your own review |
| To tell a friend about this book, you must Sign In First! |
Copyright © 2025 TheReadingWarehouse.com