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Elliot, L. M.
SUSPECT RED
Los Angeles : Disney/Hyperion, 2017
IL 5-8
ISBN 9781423159834

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Would you betray a friend? The McCarthy Era/Red Scare of the 1950's tested the American system of democracy and civil rights with its bullying investigations and sensational accusations. Worried about the Communist threat especially with the Rosenberg Trial, Soviet invasions in Eastern Europe and the Korean War, many Americans were swayed to look for the Commie spies under every bush. Richard, whose father is an FBI agent, makes friends with the new family from Czechoslovakia, but as the news media stirs up paranoia Richard begins to suspect them of disloyalty. Can he bring himself to, perhaps, destroy their lives? The pictures that introduce each chapter help make the story real. (Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2019-2020)


SUBJECTS:   McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957 -- Fiction.
                        Betrayal -- Fiction.
                        Cold War -- Fiction.
                        Anti-communist movements -- United States -- Fiction.
                        Patriotism -- United States -- Fiction.
                        Families -- Fiction.
                        Teenage boys -- Fiction.
                        Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction.

 
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