{"product_id":"you-can-fly-the-tuskegee-airmen","title":"You can fly : the Tuskegee Airmen","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this \"masterful, inspiring evocation of an era\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review),\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eALSC Children's Literature Legacy Award-winning\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eauthor Carole Boston Weatherford \"wields the power of poetry to tell [the] gripping historical story\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review) of the Tuskegee Airmen.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eI WANT YOU!\u003c\/i\u003e 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 war plane. Yet you are determined not to let that stop your dream of flying.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e So when you hear of 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've longed for is here: you are flying!\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e From training days in Alabama to combat on the front lines in Europe, this is the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the groundbreaking African-American pilots of World War II. In vibrant second-person poems, Carole Boston Weatherford teams up for the first time with her son, artist Jeffery Weatherford, in a powerful and inspiring book that allows readers to fly, too. \u003cp hidden=\"hidden\"\u003eWeatherford, Carole Boston\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atheneum Books for Young Readers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61227739545970,"sku":"1487DF8","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0893\/9182\/5266\/files\/index_94e1d2af-727a-49cc-be99-18bce05c1d0c.jpg?v=1764833873","url":"https:\/\/book-efairs.follettcontent.com\/products\/you-can-fly-the-tuskegee-airmen","provider":"Follett Book eFairs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}