Fly High!
Subtitle: The Story of Bessie Coleman
Contributors: Teresa Flavin (Illustrator)
Publisher: Aladdin
Published: January 6, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Perfect Paperback
Number of pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780689864629
Subjects: Children: Grades 4-6; History - United States/General; Biography & Autobiography - Historical; Air pilots; Juvenile literature; Juvenile Nonfiction; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Biography; History - United States/20th Century; Girls & Women; Biography & Autobiography - Cultural Heritage; Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / People of Color; African American women air pilots; United States; Biography
First sentence: A hundred years ago in Waxahachie, Texas, Bessie Coleman walked four miles to her one-room schoolhouse and four miles home.