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Red Scare: A Graphic Novel
- Subject
- Comics & Graphic Novels - Historical
- Age
- 6-8 years
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Graphix
- Size
- 17.8 cm × 22.6 cm
- ISBN
- 9781338167085
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!
About the author
Liam Francis WalshAuthor
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What reviewers said
A SLJ and NPR Best Book of the Year
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
"Red Scare is a brilliant, fast-paced adventure. Action, history, and a tiny bit of fantasy collide in eye-popping panels, loaded with heart. Liam Francis Walsh's graphic novel is set in 1950's-era Cold War, but still feels resonant today." -- Max Brallier, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Kids on Earth series
"With a wealth of period details and genre elements, this sci-fi caper set in the 1950s finds immediacy in the fears of the time, while dealing espionage action that flies off the page."
"Magnificent noir shading and a smart critique of fear-mongering elevate the action and excitement of this historical dip into the possible."
"Red Scare recounts a harrowing chapter in our country's history when the fear of Communism, or the fear of being thought a Communist, caused a sort of mass insanity. Walsh's storytelling skills are superb and the drawings are even better." ---- Roz Chast, author of Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award and was shortlisted for a National Book Award.
