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Product Details
Aladdin, January 2004
Trade Paperback, 40 pages
ISBN-10: 0689864620
ISBN-13: 9780689864629
Grades: 3 - 7
Awards and Nominations
- IRA/CBC Children's Choices
Description
When Bessie Coleman was a child, she wanted to be in school -- not in the cotton fields of Texas, helping her family earn money. She wanted to be somebody significant in the world. So Bessie did everything she could to learn under the most challenging of circumstances. At the end of every day in the fields she checked the foreman's numbers -- made sure his math was correct. And this was just the beginning of a life of hard work and dedication that really paid off: Bessie became the first African-American to earn a pilot's license. She was somebody.
Miami Herald Inspiring.
School Library Journal starred review A first-rate follow-up to Borden's Good-Bye, Charles Lindbergh.
Publishers Weekly starred review A flight well worth taking.
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