I'll Fly My Own Plane

by Jean Alicia Elster

Joe Joe is tempted to earn "easy money" drug running like his friend Tyrone, but reading about the Tuskegee Airmen helps him decide what he should do. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817014071
• ISBN13: 9780817014070
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Judson Press
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 10.2" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 6 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 5

Customer Reviews

A very highly recommended picturebook narrative

The third book in the "Joe Joe in the City" series, I'll Fly My Own Plane is a children's picturebook about a serious urban issue affecting families everywhere today. The young African-American boy Joe Joe is offered an illegal way to make quick money to buy an fancy airplane by drug dealers, but in the end Joe Joe comes to realize that it is better to work at an ethical, if less lucrative honest job and fly the simiple plane his own father made for him. A very highly recommended picturebook narrative written by jean Alicia Elster and illustrated by Nicole Tadgell, I'll Fly My Own Plane capably addresses an all too real pressure affecting young inner city children exposed to drug use and drug sales in urban environments today.