Making a sacrifice for her country

I've really got to get over my hesitance to read historical fiction; Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith is another great one! Ida Mae Jones lives on a farm in the South at the start of World War II. Her late father taught her to fly so she could help with dusting the crops, and when she hears of a new group called the WASP - Women Airforce Service Pilots - she's convinced this is the best way for her to help the war effort. Unfortunately, a black person isn't allowed to be a WASP, and she uses her light skin tone to "pass" as a white girl. Ida Mae goes through the danger and excitement of basic training, but she has to sacrifice her true identity to maintain the silver wings she worked so hard to earn. She is stymied when she gets the opportunity to work for a white man she has fallen in love with: "I can fly and be with Walt or be with my family and never fly again. It's not fair." Readers will cheer for Ida Mae and wonder what she does after the book ends.