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You can fly the Tuskegee Airmen

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.

Main Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- (Author)
Other Authors: Weatherford, Jeffery Boston (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2016]
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, African American > Juvenile poetry.
African American air pilots > History > Juvenile poetry.
World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American > Juvenile poetry.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Western Front > Juvenile poetry.
Tuskegee Army Air Field (Ala.) > Juvenile poetry.
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.
Item Description: Poems.
Physical Description: 80 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Audience: Middle School
910
Grades 4-6.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-78).
Includes filmograpgy (pages 79-80).
ISBN: 9781481449380
1481449389
9781481449397
1481449397
Author Notes: 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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