A novel in verse, American Ace presents a quest to sixteen-year-old Connor Bianchini. When Connor’s Italian American grandmother dies, she leaves a note for his father, revealing that the man who raised him was not his birth father. With his own father hospitalized after a stroke, Connor undertakes the mission to uncover his grandfather’s identity, which he eventually traces back to the Tuskegee Airmen, the group of African American aviators in World War II.