You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen

By Carole Boston Weatherford and Jeffery Boston Weatherford

Book Overview

In this "masterful, inspiring evocation of an era" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), ALSC Children's Literature Legacy Award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford "wields the power of poetry to tell the] gripping historical story" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) of the Tuskegee Airmen.

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1481449389
• ISBN13: 9781481449380
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.7" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7