Red Scare is full of bicycle chases, flying kids, cunning FBI agents, and enigmatic spies. When she finds a mysterious artifact that gives her the ability to fly, she thinks it's the solution to all her problems. Red Scare is a Cold War adventure about a girl with polio who gets her hands on a mysterious and powerful artifact that both the USA and the USSR want for their arsenals. On top of all that, Peggy has a hard time at school, and gets taunted by her classmates. 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.
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 " Red Scare is a brilliant, fast-paced adventure. He was born in northern Wisconsin and grew up on a dairy farm with lots of siblings. 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.” Liam Francis Walsh is an award-winning cartoonist, writer, and illustrator.
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.
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