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Title	:	Flygirl
Author	:	Sherri L. Smith
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 285 pages
Published	:	January 22nd 2009 by G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Fiction. War. World War II

Flygirl

Sherri L. Smith

Hardcover | Pages: 285 pages

Rating: 3.95 | 6826 Users | 954 Reviews

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Ida Mae Jones dreams of flight. Her daddy was a pilot and being black didn't stop him from fulfilling his dreams. But her daddy's gone now, and being a woman, and being black, are two strikes against her.

When America enters the war with Germany and Japan, the Army creates the WASP, the Women Airforce Service Pilots - and Ida suddenly sees a way to fly as well as do something significant to help her brother stationed in the Pacific. But even the WASP won't accept her as a black woman, forcing Ida Mae to make a difficult choice of "passing," of pretending to be white to be accepted into the program. Hiding one's racial heritage, denying one's family, denying one's self is a heavy burden. And while Ida Mae chases her dream, she must also decide who it is she really wants to be.

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Original Title:	Flygirl
ISBN:	0399247092 (ISBN13: 9780399247095)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	California Book Award for Young Adult (Gold) (2009), Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Nominee (2012)

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Ratings: 3.95 From 6826 Users | 954 Reviews

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Such a beautiful story.

I really enjoyed this book, a lot. It was a very interesting story that continued to hold my interest from start to finish.

A fun read. I got very caught up in it about halfway through, especially during Ida Maes WASP training. The plot suffers a bit from lack of drive - nothing really connects one flight to another. And also, it ended rather abruptly, and without proper closure. But the characters are distinct and engaging, and the portrait of a typical WASP - a pretty fascinating subject by any account - is made even more intriguing by the added tension of black Ida Maes having to pretend to be a white girl in the

Don't read this because of the blurb on the back by Newbery/Printz teacher's pet Jacqueline Woodson.Don't read it just because it's a window on a seldom told story of women in WWII. Don't read it just because of the theme of an African American woman trying to pass for white in the segregated world of the 1940s. Don't read it just because you're looking for another "girls can do anything they put their minds to it despite the odds" sort of read.Read it because it's well written, well researched

LOVE IT!!!!!1

Sherri L. Smiths Flygirl is definitely going on my 2010 favourites list. Im also counting it as one of my all-time favourite Young Adult reads. . . heck, its a favourite book all round.The book opens in December 1941, on the day that Pearl Harbor is attacked by the Japanese. Not long after the attack the US army develop the WASP program - Women Airforce Service Pilots. Twenty-year-old Ida Mae Jones dreams of the sky. Her dearly-departed Daddy taught her to fly for crop dusting. . . but Ida

Don't read this because of the blurb on the back by Newbery/Printz teacher's pet Jacqueline Woodson.Don't read it just because it's a window on a seldom told story of women in WWII. Don't read it just because of the theme of an African American woman trying to pass for white in the segregated world of the 1940s. Don't read it just because you're looking for another "girls can do anything they put their minds to it despite the odds" sort of read.Read it because it's well written, well researched