Title You can fly : the Tuskegee Airmen / Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Jeffery Boston Weatherford.

Publication Info.	New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2016]
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Enfield, Main Library - Children's Department	J 811 WEA	Check Shelf
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Description	80 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Note	Poems.
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.
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.
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.
Subject	United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Squadron, 99th -- History -- Juvenile poetry.
	United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Squadron, 99th -- History -- Juvenile poetry.
	United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Squadron, 99th. (OCoLC)fst00526705
	World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
	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.
	Tuskegee Army Air Field (Ala.) -- Juvenile poetry.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Western Front -- Juvenile poetry.
	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.
	Tuskegee Army Air Field (Ala.) -- Juvenile poetry.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Western Front -- Juvenile poetry.
	African American air pilots. (OCoLC)fst00799007
	Military campaigns. (OCoLC)fst01710190
	Military operations, Aerial -- American. (OCoLC)fst01710199
	Military participation -- African American. (OCoLC)fst01353696
	Alabama -- Tuskegee Army Air Field. (OCoLC)fst01269631
	Western Front (World War (1939-1945)) (OCoLC)fst01900004
	Military operations, Aerial -- American.
	Military participation -- African American.
	Western Front (World War (1939-1945).)
Chronological Term	1939-1945
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
	Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
Added Author	Weatherford, Jeffery Boston, illustrator.
ISBN	9781481449380 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
	1481449389 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
	9781481449397 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
	1481449397 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
	9781481449403 (eBook)

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