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You can fly : the Tuskegee Airmen
- Title
- You can fly : the Tuskegee Airmen / Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Jeffery Boston Weatherford.
- Author
- Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956-
- Publication
- New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2016]
- ©2016
- Supplementary Content
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 17-2029 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Weatherford, Jeffery Boston
- Description
- 80 pages : illustrations; 20 cm
- Summary
- This history in verse celebrates the story of the Tuskegee Airmen: pioneering African-American pilots who triumphed in the skies and past the color barrier.
- Subjects
- United States > Army Air Forces > Fighter Squadron, 99th
- African American air pilots
- JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / African American
- Alabama > Tuskegee Army Air Field
- World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American > Juvenile poetry
- Tuskegee Army Air Field (Ala.) > Juvenile poetry
- World War (1939-1945)
- Military campaigns
- Military participation > African American
- World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Western Front > Juvenile poetry
- JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / 20th Century
- World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, African American > Juvenile poetry
- Poetry
- Military operations, Aerial > American
- History
- JUVENILE FICTION / Stories in Verse
- Juvenile works
- United States > Army Air Forces > Fighter Squadron, 99th > History > Juvenile poetry
- Western Front (World War (1939-1945))
- African American air pilots > History > Juvenile poetry
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Poetry.
- Note
- Poems.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-78).
- Includes filmograpgy (pages 79-80).
- Audience (note)
- Middle School.
- 910
- Grades 4-6.
- Awards (note)
- American Library Association Notable Children's Book: Older Readers; 2017.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Head to the Sky -- The Civilian Pilot Training Program -- Train Ride to the Clouds -- A Shot -- The First Cadets -- Officers -- The Odds -- Keep 'Em Flying: Tuskegee Army Airfield Nurses -- Ground School -- Solo, At Last -- Sugar, Sugar -- The Other War -- Downtime -- Training Planes -- Pearl Harbor -- Dorie Miller Earns the Navy Cross -- Private Joe Louis -- Fighting Boredom -- Second Lieutenant -- William Henry Hastie -- The Double V Campaign: Pens Mighty as Swords -- Anxious -- Fight Song -- Facing the Enemy -- Operation Prove Them Wrong -- Routines -- Lena Home: More than a Pin-Up -- Red Tail Angels -- The Black Birdmen -- Your Record -- No Hero's Welcome -- A Long Line.
- Call Number
- JFD 17-2029
- ISBN
- 9781481449380
- 1481449389
- 9781481449397
- 1481449397
- LCCN
- 2015012393
- OCLC
- 905970259
- Author
- Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- author.
- Title
- You can fly : the Tuskegee Airmen / Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Jeffery Boston Weatherford.
- Publisher
- New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Audience
- Middle School.910 Lexile.
- Study Program
- Accelerated Reader 6.0.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-78).Includes filmograpgy (pages 79-80).
- Audience
- Grades 4-6.
- Awards
- American Library Association Notable Children's Book: Older Readers; 2017.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Weatherford, Jeffery Boston, illustrator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-2029