Cover image for You can fly : the Tuskegee Airmen
Title:
You can fly : the Tuskegee Airmen
Author:
Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- author.
Publication Information:
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2016]

©2016
Physical Description:
80 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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.
Language:
English
Contents:
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 Horne: More than a Pin-Up -- Red Tail Angels -- The Black Birdmen -- Your Record -- No Hero's Welcome -- A Long Line.
Reading Level:
910 Lexile

Grades 4-6.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader 6.0
ISBN:
9781481449380

9781481449397
Format :
Book