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Jump into the Sky
By Pearsall, Shelley
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- 978-0-37583-369-2 978-0-37593-369-9 978-0-37589-954-7
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- Knopf
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 2012 | Fiction
Gr 6-9–Levi has been left behind all of his life, first by his mother when he was an infant, then by his father for a job and later the Army, and now by his aunt for relief from the responsibility of raising him. Toward the end of World War II, Aunt Odella puts the 13-year-old on a train by himself from Chicago to North Carolina to join his father who is stationed there, without telling her brother. Upon reaching the base, Levi learns that his father’s unit, an all-black paratroo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
