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Fly High! The Story of Bessie Coleman

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ISBN-10: 0689824572

ISBN-13: 9780689824579

Edition: 2001

Authors: Louise Borden, Mary Kay Kroeger, Teresa Flavin

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Besse Coleman was born in rural Texas in 1892. She loved school, especially learning about numbers, and she was a good reader, too. Yet when it was time to pick cotton she had to work in the fields instead of going to school. Nevertheless, she was determined to be somebody when she grew up. In her early twenties, Bessie moved to Chicago. Perhaps there she could "find a bigger life." In the city, Bessie heard many tales of World War I from returned veterans. She also heard there were woman airplane pilots in France. From then on, she was determined to become a pilot. But she soon found out that no one would teach a woman -- especially a woman with dark skin -- how to fly. To study in France…    
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Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Publication date: 1/1/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 40
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Louise Borden is the highly regarded author of many books, including Good Luck, Mrs. K!, Sleds on Boston Common, Good-bye, Charles Lindbergh and The Little Ships: The Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk in WW II--all published by Margaret McElderry Books. Across the Blue Pacific is based on the true story of her uncle, Theodore Taylor Walker, who served aboard the USS Albacore (SS-218) during World War II. She lives with her husband, Pete, in Terrace Park, Ohio, and has three grown children. Her website can be found at www.louiseborden.com.

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