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Smith, Sherri L.

Flygirl

275 pp. | Putnam | January, 2009 | Trade ISBN 978-0-399-24709-5 $16.99
(2) YA Ida Mae wants to fly airplanes, an improbable proposition for a black girl in 1940s Louisiana. When war breaks out, Ida Mae counterfeits a pilot's license and passes as white to join the Women's Airforce Service Pilots program. While forthright about the era's racism, the story is at heart good, rousing period fiction with a determined heroine and plucky supporting cast.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2009

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