You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen
by Carole Boston Weatherford and Jeffery Boston Weatherford
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- Grade
- 5-12
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Poetry
- Cultural Experience
- African American
Year Published 2016
Word Count 5,070
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 910L
- ATOS Reading Level: 6
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 183113, 1 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Campaigns
- African American air pilots--History--Juvenile poetry
- Participation, African American
- World War, 1939-1945
- Aerial operations, American
- Western Front
- Tuskegee Army Air Field (Ala.)
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front--Juvenile poetry
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | Military & Wars
- Tuskegee Army Air Field (Ala.)--Juvenile poetry
- World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American--Juvenile poetry
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Poetry | General
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction
- African American air pilots
- History
- United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Squadron, 99th--History--Juvenile poetry
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, African American--Juvenile poetry
- United States
- Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
- Lists With This Book
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Awards & Distinctions 4
ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2024
Commended, 2017
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2024
History, Life, Culture in the Americas Selection, 2017
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2017
Notable Poetry and Verse Novels, 2011-2024
Selection, 2017
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