Tuskegee Airmen: American Heroes

by Thomas Reilly and Lynn M. Homan

Book Overview

On the first warm and sunny day of the year, Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School principal Sharon Riggs needs one more substitute teacher. Victor Kennedy, the father of the school 1/2s secretary, agrees to teach the seventh-grade American-history class for the day and tells the students about the Tuskegee Airmen. During World War II, the Tuskegee Airmen were the first black men allowed into combat, flying over 1,500 missions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565549945
• ISBN13: 9781565549944
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8