{"product_id":"you-can-fly-the-tuskegee-airmen-1481449397","title":"You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1481449397\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Weatherford, Carole Boston\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this masterful, inspiring evocation of an era (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), ALSC Childrens Literature Legacy Award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford wields the power of poetry to tell [the] gripping historical story (Publishers Weekly, starred review) of the Tuskegee Airmen.I WANT YOU! says the poster of Uncle Sam. But if youre a young black man in 1940, he doesnt want you in the cockpit of a war plane. Yet you are determined not to let that stop your dream of flying.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 youve 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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52109784613152,"sku":"NEW1481449397","price":9.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71aSRLWpJvL._SL1200_QL70.jpg?v=1785991244","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/you-can-fly-the-tuskegee-airmen-1481449397","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}