American ace /
Nelson, Marilyn, 1946-
American ace / by Marilyn Nelson. - 123 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Sixteen-year-old Connor tries to help his severely depressed father, who learned upon his mother's death that Nonno was not his biological father, by doing research that reveals Dad's father was probably a Tuskegee Airman. Connor's grandmother left his dad a letter when she died, and her confession shook their tight-knit Italian-American family: the man who raised Dad was not his birth father. The only clues to this birth father's identity are a class ring and a pair of pilot's wings, and Connor takes it upon himself to investigate. The pursuit becomes even more pressing when Dad is hospitalized after a stroke. What Connor discovers will lead him and his father to a new, richer understanding of race, identity, and each other.
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2015000851
United States. Army Air Forces. Bombardment Group, 477th --Juvenile fiction.
Family life--Fiction.
Fathers and sons--Juvenile fiction.
Families--Juvenile fiction.
Identity (Philosophical concept)--Juvenile fiction.
Racially mixed people--Juvenile fiction.
Novels in verse.
American ace / by Marilyn Nelson. - 123 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Sixteen-year-old Connor tries to help his severely depressed father, who learned upon his mother's death that Nonno was not his biological father, by doing research that reveals Dad's father was probably a Tuskegee Airman. Connor's grandmother left his dad a letter when she died, and her confession shook their tight-knit Italian-American family: the man who raised Dad was not his birth father. The only clues to this birth father's identity are a class ring and a pair of pilot's wings, and Connor takes it upon himself to investigate. The pursuit becomes even more pressing when Dad is hospitalized after a stroke. What Connor discovers will lead him and his father to a new, richer understanding of race, identity, and each other.
9780803733053 $17.99 0803733054
2015000851
United States. Army Air Forces. Bombardment Group, 477th --Juvenile fiction.
Family life--Fiction.
Fathers and sons--Juvenile fiction.
Families--Juvenile fiction.
Identity (Philosophical concept)--Juvenile fiction.
Racially mixed people--Juvenile fiction.
Novels in verse.