Flygirl | First Line Friday + The Friday 56

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Happy Friday!

I'm reading Sherri L. Smith's Flygirl today (and hoping to start Orleans this weekend).

First Line: It's Sunday afternoon, and the phonograph player is jumping like a clown in a parade the way Jolene and I are dancing.

From Page 56: "Listen to me, girl. Because you are young and you don't know, I'm here to tell you: you cross that line, you cannot cross back just as you please."

ABOUT THE BOOK

For fans of Unbroken and Ruta Sepetys.

All Ida Mae Jones wants to do is fly. Her daddy was a pilot, and years after his death she feels closest to him when she's in the air. But as a young black woman in 1940s Louisiana, she knows the sky is off limits to her, until America enters World War II, and the Army forms the WASP—Women Airforce Service Pilots. Ida has a chance to fulfill her dream if she's willing to use her light skin to pass as a white girl. She wants to fly more than anything, but Ida soon learns that denying one's self and family is a heavy burden, and ultimately it's not what you do but who you are that's most important.

Publisher: Speak
Release Date: January 22, 2009

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