The Hallelujah Flight

Title
The Hallelujah Flight

Author
Bildner, Phil, author.

ISBN
9780399247897

Publication Information
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2010.

Physical Description
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 x 27 cm.

General Note
Maps on lining papers.

Reading Level
AD 760 L Lexile

Personal Subject
Banning, James Herman-Fiction.

Subject Term
Air pilots -- Fiction.
 
Transcontinental flights -- Fiction.
 
Flight -- History -- Fiction.
 
African Americans -- Fiction.
 
African American air pilots -- Fiction.

Added Author
Holyfield, John

Summary
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.


LibraryCall NumberStatus
Hardwood Creek Library (Forest Lake)EASY BILChildren's Picture Books
R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury)EASY BILChildren's Picture Books