American Ace, Marilyn Nelson
American Ace, Marilyn Nelson
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American Ace

Author: Marilyn Nelson

Narrator: Marilyn Nelson

Unabridged: 1 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/12/2016


Synopsis

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 of pilot’s wings. And so Connor takes it upon himself to investigate—a pursuit that becomes even more pressing when Dad is hospitalized after a stroke. What Connor discovers will lead him and his father to a new, richer understanding of race, identity, and each other.

About The Author

Marilyn Nelson is a three-time National Book Award finalist, has won a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, and several Coretta Scott King Honors, and has received several prestigious poetry awards, including the Poets' Prize and the Robert Frost Medal "for distinguished lifetime service to American poetry." Her most recent book, How I Discovered Poetry, was named a Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book and an ALA Notable Children’s Book.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Naz

Review can also be found in my blog: [URL not allowed]-aR Marilyn Nelson is an award-winning poet, author of the moving A Wreath for Emmett Till and the terrific How I Discovered Poetry. She writes eloquently about issues of race, African-American civil rights history, and history in general. Unfor......more

Goodreads review by Edwin

American Ace is a fascinating book. I’m not done reading it but I can just tell it’s going to be amazing all around. American Ace tells the reader about a dad and a daughter living a life where the dads mom die aka the daughters aunt. It takes months for the dad to even smile again. Will it take yea......more


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Praise for American Ace

“[Nelson’s] meticulous verse is the perfect vehicle to convey the devastating fragility of racial and familial identity in an America where interracial love is still divided through the problem of the color line.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

“Inspired by her father’s remarkable experiences as a Tuskegee Airman, esteemed historian-poet Nelson has aced it again. . . . This slice of history has been told before, but not like this.”—Booklist

“Nelson’s powerful command of language is inarguable.”—Publishers Weekly

“A quietly powerful story about race, ignorance, and identity from a poetry master.”—Bustle.com

“A skillful exploration into identity, culture, and race.”—Examiner.com

“A gorgeous story that stays with you long after you finish.”—Buzzfeed

“A bright spot in historical fiction.”—BookPage

“Stunning.”—Shelf Awareness