American ace
By: by Marilyn Nelson
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
ISBN-13: 9780803733053
Subjects: Identity (Philosophical concept); Families; Racially mixed people; Juvenile fiction; Family life; Fathers and sons; United States; United States. Army Air Forces. Bombardment Group, 477th; Novels in verse; Fiction; Identity
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: The language of suffering; title: Uncle father Joe; title: Driver's permit; title: Hot cocoa; title: Letter?; title: La famiglia Bianchini; title: Chinese gong; title: Gold class ring; title: Heirloom; title: Italian bling; title: The x-factor; title: Baklava; title: Unknown DNA; title: The stink eye; title: Suo Marte; title: Dead-end clue; title: The mystery ring; title: The Forcean; title: But; title: Historically black colleges and universities; title: A hundred what-ifs; title: What families are for; title: Googling Wilberforce; title: Lines of OOOOOOO; title: Ace; title: Together in the kitchen; title: Cringing; title: DNA; title: Thanksgiving gasp; title: Now that we're colored; title: Acute care; title: Rehab; title: Daily visits; title: Watching dad come back to life; title: Reading dad the headlines; title: Holding dad's juice glass; title: Feeding dad a salisbury steak dinner; title: Wheelchair to walker; title: Rehab Christmas; title: Moving dad home; title: Beginning; title: The floodgates opened; title: Heroes; title: DMV; title: Beyond skin; title: How this book came to be.