The Hallelujah Flight
By: written by Phil Bildner ; illustrated by John Holyfield.
Contributors: Holyfield, John, ill.
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons; Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780399247897
Subjects: Banning, James Herman -- Juvenile fiction; Banning, James Herman -- Fiction; Air pilots -- Fiction; Transcontinental flights -- Fiction; Flight -- Fiction; African Americans -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction; Fiction
Description: In 1932, James Banning, along with his co-pilot Thomas Allen, make history by becoming the first African Americans to fly across the United States, relying on the generosity of people they meet in the towns along the way who help keep their "flying jalopy" going.