--• McCarthy Era / 1950's •--

Crowe, Chris – Mississippi Trial, 1955  (231 pages) In Mississippi in 1955, a sixteen-year-old finds himself at odds with his grandfather over issues surrounding the kidnapping and murder of a fourteen-year-old African American from Chicago.  (N)

Krisher, Trudy – Fallout  (315 pages) The move of an unconventional Hollywood family to a coastal North Carolina town in the early 1950s results not only in an unlikely friendship between high school age Genevieve and newcomer Brenda but also in a challenge to traditional ways of thinking. (N)

Levine, Ellen – Catch a Tiger By the Toe (200 pages) In the Bronx, New York, during the McCarthy era, twelve-year-old Jamie keeps a terrible secret about her family, but when the truth is exposed, her parents lose their jobs and she is fired from the school newspaper.  (N)

Riddle, Paxton – The Education of Ruby Loonfoot  (340 pages) Set in 1957, Ruby struggles with issues of race, culture, and abuse as she attends St. Nic's Catholic school and at home, where she is torn between her devout Catholic mother and her traditionalist Ojibwe grandmother.  (N)

Townley, Roderick – Sky: A Novel in Three Sets and an Encore  (265 pages) In New York City in 1959, fifteen-year-old Alec Schuyler, at odds with his widowed father over his love of music, finds a mentor and friend in a blind, black jazz musician.  (N)

Trottier, Maxine – Three Songs for Courage  (324 pages) In 1956, sixteen-year-old Gordon Westley finds his summer vacation shattered by tragedy, forcing him to come face-to-face with the darkest--and the sweetest--side of human nature.  (N)

Van Oosting, James – Walking Mary  (130 pages) To escape problems with both of her parents throughout her childhood in the 1940s and 50s, Pearl Harbor Keenan reaches out to Walking Mary, a strange old woman who meets every single passenger train that pulls into the Framburg depot.  (N)

Key:

N=Synopsis from NoveList
K=Synopsis by librarian
A=Synopsis from Amazon.com

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