Fly, Bessie, fly
Author:
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers,
Pub. Date:
c1998.
Edition:
1st ed.
Language:
English
Accelerated Reader:
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 0.5
Lexile measure:
670L
Description
Far away, far away, Up past the clouds. High away, fly away, And never come down. More than anything, Bessie Coleman wants to fly. As a small child working in a Waxahachie, Texas, cotton field, she likes to imagine she's a bird, getting ready to spread her wings and fly away. Then, when Bessie learns about the black fighter pilots of World War I, she gets the idea that maybe she really can fly. But no one in the United States will teach her how to fly a plane because she's black and a woman. So Bessie goes to France, where she becomes the first black woman in the world to earn a pilot's license -- and where she finally has the chance to soar with the birds. In lyrical prose, Lynn Joseph tells the inspirational true story of aviator Bessie Coleman. Yvonne Buchanan's buoyant watercolor paintings remind us that sometimes even seemingly unattainable dreams are within our reach.
Subjects
Subjects
African Americans
African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
African American women air pilots
African American women air pilots -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Air pilots
Air pilots -- Juvenile literature
Coleman, Bessie
Coleman, Bessie, -- 1892-1926 -- Juvenile literature
Women
Women -- Biography
African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
African American women air pilots
African American women air pilots -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Air pilots
Air pilots -- Juvenile literature
Coleman, Bessie
Coleman, Bessie, -- 1892-1926 -- Juvenile literature
Women
Women -- Biography
More Details
Contributors:
ISBN:
9780689813399
Accelerated Reader:
LG
Level 4, 0.5 Points
Level 4, 0.5 Points
Lexile measure:
670L
Staff View
Grouping Information
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Grouping Title | fly bessie fly |
Grouping Author | joseph lynn |
Grouping Category | book |
Last Grouping Update | 2018-05-30 04:36:45AM |
Last Indexed | 2019-02-15 04:43:16AM |
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publishDate | 1998 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
record_details | ils:a157697|Book|Books|1st ed.|English|Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers,|c1998.|1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 29 cm. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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subject_facet | African American women air pilots -- Biography -- Juvenile literature, African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature, Air pilots -- Juvenile literature, Coleman, Bessie, -- 1892-1926 -- Juvenile literature, Women -- Biography | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | Fly, Bessie, fly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | Fly, Bessie, fly / by Lynn Joseph ; illustrated by Yvonne Buchanan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | Fly, Bessie, fly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | African American women air pilots, African Americans, Air pilots, Coleman, Bessie, Women |