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  • Red Scare

Red Scare

Publication Date
May 03, 2022
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  4th − 5th
Language
English
Format
Graphic Novel
Red Scare

Description

A page-turning sci-fi adventure set in 1953, featuring a clever girl who, against all odds, must outsmart bullies, the FBI, and alien invaders during the height of the communist Red Scare.

The New York Times Book Review calls Red Scare a "masterly graphic novel debut... tightly wrought, intense, unpredictable... breathtaking action sequences... pacing is remarkable... a virtuosic performance."

Red Scare is a brilliant, fast-paced adventure. Action, history, and a tiny bit of fantasy collide in eye-popping panels, loaded with heart. -- Max Brallier, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Kids on Earth series

Peggy is scared: She's struggling to recover from polio and needs crutches to walk, and she and her neighbors are worried about the rumors of Communist spies doing bad things. On top of all that, Peggy has a hard time at school, and gets taunted by her classmates. When she finds a mysterious artifact that gives her the ability to fly, she thinks it's the solution to all her problems. But if Peggy wants to keep it, she'll have to overcome bullies, outsmart FBI agents, and escape from some very strange spies!

Publication date
May 03, 2022
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781338167092
Lexile Measure
200
Publisher
Scholastic Inc.
BISAC categories
JUV053000 - Juvenile Fiction | Science Fiction
JUV016150 - Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 20th Century
JUV008040 - Juvenile Fiction | Comics & Graphic Novels | Action & Adventure
JUV008140 - Juvenile Fiction | Comics & Graphic Novels | Science Fiction
JUV008090 - Juvenile Fiction | Comics & Graphic Novels | Historical
JUV076000 - Juvenile Fiction | Spies & Spying
Library of Congress categories
History
United States
Flight
Graphic novels
Ability
Comics (Graphic works)
Historical comics
Cold War
Patients
Poliomyelitis
Preteen girls
1945-1953
Liam Francis Walsh
Liam Francis Walsh is an award-winning cartoonist, writer, and illustrator. He was born in northern Wisconsin and grew up on a dairy farm with lots of siblings and books and a pet crow. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Guardian, and Reader's Digest, and he is the author of two pictures books, Make a Wish, Henry Bear and Fish. He lives in Switzerland with his wife and daughter.
Junior Library Guild
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Selection
NPR
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Best Book of the Year