{"product_id":"you-can-fly-isbn-9781481449397","title":"You Can Fly","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\u003e 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\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\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!\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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.","brand":"Atheneum Books for Young Readers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48684531089637,"sku":"NP9781481449397","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/you-can-fly-isbn-9781481449397","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}