American Ace

by Marilyn Nelson

Book Overview

This riveting novel in verse, perfect for fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Toni Morrison, explores American history and race through the eyes of a teenage boy embracing his newfound identity Connor's grandmother leaves his dad a letter when she dies, and the letter's confession shakes their tight-knit Italian-American family: The man who raised Dad is not his birth father. But the only clues to this birth father's identity are a class ring and a pair...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803733054
• ISBN13: 9780803733053
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Rocky Pond Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher