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You Can Fly

The Tuskegee Airmen

By: Carole Boston Weatherford

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You Can Fly

The Tuskegee Airmen

By: Carole Boston Weatherford

In this “masterful, inspiring evocation of an era” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), 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. I 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. So 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! From 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.

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Simon and Schuster

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1481449400

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9781481449403

A Boston Harbor Islands Adventure

The Great Brewster Journal of 1891

By: Stephanie Schorow

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A Boston Harbor Islands Adventure

The Great Brewster Journal of 1891

By: Stephanie Schorow

In 1891, four intrepid women from Lowell sailed to a remote island in Boston Harbor for a 17-day escape from New England's prim and proper society. Calling themselves the Scribe, the Aristocrat, the Acrobat, and the Autocrat, the women rusticated in a cottage on Great Brewster Island, reveling in the chance to shed their identities of wife, mother, and daughter. Relive their sojourn through their remarkable journal, filled with observations, illustrations, photographs, and poetry, reproduced here by the Friends of the Boston Harbor Islands.

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192

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Arcadia Publishing

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ISBN 10

1439678162

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9781439678169

Winslow Homer

By: Nicolai Cikovsky,Franklin Kelly,Judith Walsh,Winslow Homer,National Gallery of Art (U.S.),Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Winslow Homer

By: Nicolai Cikovsky,Franklin Kelly,Judith Walsh,Winslow Homer,National Gallery of Art (U.S.),Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

This work examines Homer's artistic accomplishments. It focuses not only on his use of various media, but also on the suites of works on the same subject that reflect the artist's modern practice of thinking and working serially and thematically.

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436

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Yale University Press

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0300065558

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9780300065558

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You Can Fly

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A Boston Harbor Islands Adventure

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