You can fly : the Tuskegee Airmen
(Book)

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 warplane. Yet you are determined not to let that stop your dream of flying. So when you hear about 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 have 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 pioneering African American pilots of World War II. In vibrant second-person poems that allow readers to fly too, award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford teams up for the first time with her son, artist Jeffery Boston Weatherford, to tell the story of these men who triumphed in the skies and over the color barrier. Book jacket.

Grades 4-6.

4-7

9-12

910L,Lexile

Accelerated Reader AR,LG,6,1,183113.