Jump into the Sky by Shelley Pearsall

Author:Shelley Pearsall [Pearsall, Shelley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780375895487
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2012-08-13T14:00:00+00:00

21. Blackout Jump

If I wasn’t a believer in MawMaw Sands’s peculiar gifts before that day, I was after it. Because unless she read the official orders of the U.S. Army before they were sent, there was no way she woulda known about Cal being shipped so far away. Not when he hadn’t even read the news himself. And, believe me, if you were asked to draw a diagonal line from one end of the United States to the other, you couldn’t get a line much longer than one going from North Carolina to the place where the army was sending Cal.

Pendleton, Oregon. That’s what the orders said. Cal showed me the letter when I got back. It said Sergeant Calvin R. Thomas was ordered to duty with the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion at Pendleton Air Base in Oregon under the control of the U.S. Ninth Army Service Command.

Now, if I’d been asked to guess the location where my father and the other troopers might be, Oregon was a place that never woulda crossed my mind in a million years, that’s for sure.

“Why there?” I asked Cal, rereading the official words again as if there might be some clue we missed.

He shrugged. “It’s the army. Who knows.”

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