"Fly High! The life story of the first African American to earn a pilot's license is revealed. "A flight well-worth taking."--"Publishers Weekly," starred review. Full color. Full description"
""The big story here is is the 1927 Jack Dempsey-Gene Tunney fight for the World Heavyweight Championship in Chicago. The small story, though, is about Willie Brinkman, a paperboy on a 'small potatoes' corner in Cincinnati. . . . An engaging work that will bring home, through well-chosen details and a well-told story, the intimate connections one can make with 'famous facts' when the personal perspective is added."--School Library Journa ..."
"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 f ..."
"In Cincinnati in 1927, paperboy Willie Brinkman attempts to sell extra copies of the special edition covering the Dempsey-Tunney fight in his working-class neighborhood."
Pathways(1st Edition) Grade 4 Fly High! the Story of Bessie Coleman Trade Book by K/H (Pathways) (2010, Trade Paperback, Revised edition) by K/H, Louise Borden, MaryKayKroeger, Teresa Flavin Hardcover, 40 Pages, Published 2010 by Kendall Hunt Pub Co ISBN-13: 978-0-7575-4080-6, ISBN: 0-7575-4080-5
"Discusses the life of the determined African American woman who went all the way to France in order to earn her pilot's license in 1921."
""The big story here is is the 1927 Jack Dempsey-Gene Tunney fight for the World Heavyweight Championship in Chicago. The small story, though, is about Willie Brinkman, a paperboy on a 'small potatoes' corner in Cincinnati. . ."
"Discusses the life of the determined African American woman who went all the way to France in order to earn her pilot's license in 1921."
Fly High! The Story of Bessie Coleman by Louise Borden, MaryKayKroeger EncadernaĆ§Ć£o Para Biblioteca, Published 2004 by San Val ISBN-13: 978-1-4177-4025-3, ISBN: 1-4177-4025-6
"Discusses the life of the determined African American woman who went all the way to France in order to earn her pilot's license in 1921."
Paperboy by MaryKayKroeger, Louise Borden Library, 31 Pages, Published 2001 by Topeka Bindery ISBN-13: 978-0-613-34023-6, ISBN: 0-613-34023-X
"In Cincinnati in 1927, paperboy Willie Brinkman tries to sell extras on the Dempsey-Tunney boxing match in his workingman's neighborhood."