You Can Fly
The Tuskegee Airmen
Published on 4. July 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-4814-4939-7 (ISBN)
Description
This history in verse celebrates the story of the Tuskegee Airmen: pioneeringAfrican-American pilots who triumphed in the skies and past the color barrierduring World War II. Illustrations.
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Edition
Reprint ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Children/juvenile
US School Grade: From Preschool to Second Grade, Interest Age: From 9 to 12 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 191 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
113 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4814-4939-7 (9781481449397)
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E-Book
05/2016
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
€7.90
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Persons
Carole Boston Weatherford is an ALSC Children's Literature Legacy Award winner, an honor given to an author or illustrator who has made a substantial and lasting contribution to children's literature. Her award-winning books include 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.