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Wiles, Deborah

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394 pp. | Scholastic | May, 2010 | Trade ISBN 978-0-545-10605-4 $17.99
(1) 4-6 Sixties Trilogy series. The narrator of this first-rate novel is eleven-year-old Air Force brat (and middle child) Franny Chapman. With JFK facing down Communists and a father on active duty, Franny has cause to feel on edge. Eye-grabbing graphic spreads of Cold War–era images, lyrics, speeches, and headlines are shrewdly interspersed throughout the book, providing most of the social commentary and historical explication.
Reviewer: Anne Quirk | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2010

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