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You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen
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You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen Paperback - 2017

by Weatherford, Carole Boston

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This history in verse celebrates the story of the Tuskegee Airmen: pioneeringAfrican-American pilots who triumphed in the skies and past the color barrierduring World War II. Illustrations.

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  • Title You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen
  • Author Weatherford, Carole Boston
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition UsedGood
  • Pages 96
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Atheneum Books for Young Readers
  • Date 2017-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 31UI56007CKG_ns
  • ISBN 9781481449397 / 1481449397
  • Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.4 in (19.05 x 13.97 x 1.02 cm)
  • Ages 09 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 4 - 7
  • Reading level 910
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Cultural Region: Western Europe
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Geographic Orientation: Alabama
    • Topical: Black History
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - History, World War, 1939-1945 - Aerial operations,
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015012393
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.6

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About the author

Carole Boston Weatherford has written many award-winning books for children, including Kin, illustrated by her son Jeffery and a Coretta Scott King Author Honor recipient; Box, which won a Newbery Honor; Unspeakable, which won the Coretta Scott King Award, a Caldecott Honor, and was a finalist for the National Book Award; Respect: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, winner of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award; ALA Notable Children's Book You Can Fly; and 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. Carole lives in North Carolina. Visit her at CBWeatherford.com.

Jeffery Boston Weatherford is an award-winning children's book illustrator and a performance poet. He has lectured, performed, and led art and writing workshops in the US, the Middle East, and West Africa. Jeffery was a Romare Bearden Scholar at Howard University, where he earned an MFA in painting and studied under members of the Black Arts Movement collective AfriCobra. A North Carolina native and resident, Jeffery has exhibited his art in North Carolina, Georgia, Maryland, and Washington, DC. Visit him at CBWeatherford.com.

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