A review by thatlibrarynerd
The Loud Silence of Francine Green by Karen Cushman

This book gives a clear and human picture of a time most of us have heard about, but don’t have a sense for. Knowing what McCarthyism and the Red Scare did isn’t the same as knowing what it was like to live through that time, so reading about it in this way was particularly interesting.

I like that Francie isn’t at the heart of anything—she’s an ordinary person, as most of us are. So the period through her eyes is tangible on a level it wouldn’t be in history books.