Enemy : Detroit, 1954 by Holbrook, Sara 

BTSB Prebound(Calkins Creek, 2017)

BTSB #: 456538 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.7 MG Lexile: 740

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Middle school students - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Families - Fiction Cold War - Fiction Nineteen fifties - Fiction Detroit (Mich.) - Fiction

Summary: Set in 1954, this compelling historical novel tells the story of a young girl's struggles and triumphs in the aftermath of World War II.

Red Menace by Ruby, Lois 

BTSB Prebound(Carolrhoda, 2020)

BTSB #: 769750 Available

Dewey: FAges: 11-14   
AR: 5.3 MG Lexile: 790 F&P: Z

Genres: Family Life Historical Fiction Multicultural

Subjects: United States.|bFederal Bureau of Investigation - Fiction Family life - Fiction Communism - Fiction Cold War - Fiction Surveillance - Fiction Jews - United States - Fiction Kansas - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: During the summer of 1953, thirteen-year-old Marty's parents are suspected of communist sympathies, upending his life and causing him to question what it really means to be a patriotic American.

Red scare by Walsh, Liam Francis 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic, 2022)

BTSB #: 918164 Available

Dewey: 741.5/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 2.2 MG Lexile: 200 GN

Genres:

Subjects: City and town life - Fiction Cold war - Fiction Poliomyelitis - Patients - Fiction Ability - Fiction Flight - Fiction Graphic novels

Summary: In the aftermath of the Korean War, Peggy's small hometown is rife with anti-Communist hysteria. But Peggy has bigger problems: She's struggling to recover from polio. Taunted by her classmates, Peggy just wants to be left alone, but then she stumbles across a mysterious object that gives her the power to fly. Unscrupulous operatives from the American and Soviet governments seek the object to overturn the tense political stalemate. In graphic novel format.

Red scare by Walsh, Liam Francis 

Paperback(Scholastic, 2022)

BTSB #: 918166 Available

Dewey: 741.5/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 2.2 MG Lexile: 200 GN

Genres:

Subjects: City and town life - Fiction Cold war - Fiction Poliomyelitis - Patients - Fiction Ability - Fiction Flight - Fiction Graphic novels

Summary: In the aftermath of the Korean War, Peggy's small hometown is rife with anti-Communist hysteria. But Peggy has bigger problems: She's struggling to recover from polio. Taunted by her classmates, Peggy just wants to be left alone, but then she stumbles across a mysterious object that gives her the power to fly. Unscrupulous operatives from the American and Soviet governments seek the object to overturn the tense political stalemate. In graphic novel format.

Suspect red by Elliott, Laura 

BTSB Prebound(Disney/Hyperion, 2017)

BTSB #: 307079 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-14   
AR: 5.1 MG+RC: 4.6 6-8 Lexile: 760

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life

Subjects: United States.|bFederal Bureau of Investigation - Fiction Family life - Washington (D.C.) - Fiction Loyalty - Fiction World politics|y1945-1955 - Fiction Cold War - Fiction Washington (D.C.) - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: In 1950s Washington, D.C., teenaged Richard, a bookworm whose father works for the FBI, experiences effects of McCarthyism, beginning with book banning and ending with a threat to his half-Czech friend.