Jump into the sky
By: Shelley Pearsall
Series: EZ reading
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780545649414; 9780545620673
Subjects: Juvenile fiction; Teenage boys; Racism; Segregation; Fathers and sons; African Americans; World War, 1939-1945; United States. Army. Parachute Infantry Battalion, 555th; United States
Description: In 1945, thirteen-year-old Levi Battle travels to find the father he has not seen in three years, going from Chicago to segregated North Carolina and finally to Pendleton, Oregon, where he learns that his father's unit, the all-black 555th paratrooper battalion, will never see combat but finally has a mission. Includes historical notes.
Notes: "First Scholastic  printing, September 2013"--Title page verso.

"This edition is available for distribution only through the school market"--Cover verso.

Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2012.

940L Lexile