Brave Bessie: Flying Free

by Lillian M. Fisher

Book Overview

Most adventure heroes are male and white, but the biography Brave Bessie: Flying Free is refreshingly different and gives young girls an exciting role model. It tells the story of Bessie Coleman, who picked cotton in Waxahachie as a child but grew up to fly. Bessie overcame many obstacles on her way to wowing airshow crowds. No American flying school would accept her because I was Indian, I was Negro, I was female. And I wanted to fly. Bessie learned...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 093746094X
• ISBN13: 9780937460948
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Hendrick-Long Publishing Company
• Length: 87 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 4 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 4 and higher