You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen
  • Published:
    May-2016 (Hardcover)
    Jul-2017 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Time Period:
    1940's-1950's WWII (1939-1945) 20th Century
  • Pages:
    96
  • Age Level:
    09-12
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Award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford's innovative history in verse celebrates the story of the Tuskegee Airmen: pioneering African-American pilots who triumphed in the skies and past the color barrier.

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.
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    •  
    • Jul-2017
    • Atheneum
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1481449397
    • ISBN13: 9781481449397
    • First Edition
    • May-2016
    • Atheneum
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1481449389
    • ISBN13: 9781481449380
    •  
    • May-2016
    • Atheneum
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1481449400
    • ISBN13: 9781481449403
    •  
    • May-2016
    • Atheneum Books for Young Readers
    • eBook (Kindle)



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