{"product_id":"9781481449397","title":"You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen","description":"\u003cp\u003eAward-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford’s innovative history in verse celebrates the story of the Tuskegee Airmen: pioneering African-American pilots who triumphed in the skies and past the color barrier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atheneum Books for Young Readers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032399954160,"sku":"9781481449397","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781481449397_p0.jpg?v=1763766907","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781481449397","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}