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Author Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- author.

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]
©2016

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 Avon Free Public Library - Children's Department  J 811.6 WEATHERFORD    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Children's Department  J 811 WEATHERFORD    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Children's Department  J 811 WEA    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 811.6 WEATHERFORD    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Children's Department  J 811.6 WEATHERFORD    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Children's Department  J821 WEA    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Children's Department  Juv. 811.6 W262Y    Check Shelf
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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