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Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers (Junior Library Guild Selection) Paperback - 2013
by Stone, Tanya Lee
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- Paperback
Stone ("Almost Astronauts") examines the little-known history of the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, who fought in an attack on the American West by the Japanese. The OTriple Nickles, O in the words of First Sergeant Walter Morris, "proved that the color of a man had nothing to do with his ability." Photos.
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- Title Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers (Junior Library Guild Selection)
- Author Stone, Tanya Lee
- Binding Paperback
- Condition New
- Pages 160
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Candlewick Press (MA)
- Date 2013-10-08
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # GOR011049517
- ISBN 9780763665487 / 0763665487
- Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 9.8 x 9 x 0.5 in (24.89 x 22.86 x 1.27 cm)
- Ages 10 to UP years
- Grade levels 5 - UP
- Reading level 1090
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Topical: Black History
- Library of Congress subjects United States - History, Race discrimination
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013388843
- Dewey Decimal Code 940.541
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- Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 01/01/2013, Page 265
- Horn Book Magazine, 01/01/2013, Page 109