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Jump Into the Sky

by Shelley Pearsall

Ages: 12+

Published: 2012

Publisher: Knopf/Random House

ISBN: 978-0-375-83699-2

Keywords: Air Force, World War II, Racism

In 1945, a thirteen-year-old African American boy is sent to North Carolina to live with his father--a World War II army pilot--and learns the harsh realities of Jim Crow.