{"product_id":"you-can-fly-the-tuskegee-airmen-9781481449380","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), award-winning author 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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo 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! \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom 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\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarole Boston Weatherford has written many award-winning books for children, including \u003ci\u003eKin\u003c\/i\u003e, illustrated by her son Jeffery and a Coretta Scott King Author Honor recipient; \u003ci\u003eBox\u003c\/i\u003e, which won a Newbery Honor; \u003ci\u003eUnspeakable\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Coretta Scott King Award, a Caldecott Honor, and was a finalist for the National Book Award; \u003ci\u003eRespect: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award; ALA Notable Children's Book \u003ci\u003eYou Can Fly\u003c\/i\u003e; and Caldecott Honor winners \u003ci\u003eFreedom in Congo Square\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eVoice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eMoses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e. Carole lives in North Carolina. Visit her at CBWeatherford.com. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJeffery Boston Weatherford is an award-winning children's book illustrator and a performance poet. He has lectured, performed, and led art and writing workshops in the US, the Middle East, and West Africa. Jeffery was a Romare Bearden Scholar at Howard University, where he earned an MFA in painting and studied under members of the Black Arts Movement collective AfriCobra. A North Carolina native and resident, Jeffery has exhibited his art in North Carolina, Georgia, Maryland, and Washington, DC. Visit him at CBWeatherford.com.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Atheneum Books for Young Readers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50726599557394,"sku":"9781481449380","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5721a330-6f6f-416b-b87f-af1c8435ee0d.jpg?v=1737252772","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/you-can-fly-the-tuskegee-airmen-9781481449380","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}