One rookie pilot. A squadron of shark-toothed planes. A war on the far side of the world.
Jack Brody is nineteen years old, and the bravest thing he's ever done is buzz a church steeple in his father's crop-duster. Then a stranger offers him a chance most people would call crazy: fly halfway around the world and become one of the Flying Tigers-American volunteers flying shark-mouthed P-40 Warhawks to defend China's skies against Japanese bombers.
Outnumbered, exhausted, and scared down to his bones, Jack learns the one rule that keeps a pilot alive: climb high, dive fast, strike, and run-never turn and fight. Alongside his new friend Wei, a boy in the city he's sworn to protect, Jack will face the biggest raid China has ever seen-and discover that real courage isn't the absence of fear at all.
Sharks in the Sky is the first book in Warbirds, William Buchner's series of true-to-history adventures for ages 7-10 about legendary aircraft and the daring young people who flew them.