{"product_id":"you-can-fly-the-tuskegee-airmen","title":"You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen","description":"In this “masterful, inspiring evocation of an era” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), ALSC Children’s 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.\n\nI 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 war plane. Yet you are determined not to let that stop your dream of flying.\n\nSo 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!\n\nFrom 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1481449397\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: 31UI56007CKG_ns\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Weatherford, Carole Boston|Weatherford, Jeffery Boston\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43590205702205,"sku":"31UI56007CKG_ns","price":6.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/1481449397-0.jpg?v=1788733478","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/you-can-fly-the-tuskegee-airmen","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}