Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
A page-turning adventure featuring a clever 11-year-old girl who must, against all odds, protect her family and town during the height of the communist red scare.
It's 1953 and America is on edge with rumors of Communist spies undermining the country. Peggy's small hometown is fearful of the red scare, too. But Peggy has her own problems: She's struggling to recover from polio. Taunted by her classmates, Peggy just wants to be left alone, but then she accidentally finds a mysterious artifact that gives her the power to fly. Unscrupulous FBI agents also want the artifact, and suddenly Peggy finds herself smack in the middle of the Cold War arms race between Communist Russia and the United States
Synopsis
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.A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
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