Questa serie si addentra nei turbolenti anni Sessanta, concentrandosi su personaggi adolescenti che affrontano crisi globali e prove personali. Le narrazioni fondono eventi storici significativi con intimi drammi familiari che plasmano i giovani in tempi di disordini politici e sconvolgimenti sociali. I lettori troveranno una narrazione avvincente sul coraggio, la famiglia e la ricerca dell'identità in mezzo all'incertezza. Offre una prospettiva su uno dei decenni più cruciali del XX secolo attraverso gli occhi di coloro che lo hanno vissuto.
Eleven-year-old Franny Chapman lives with her family in Washington, D.C., during the days surrounding the Cuban Missile Crisis. Amidst the pervasive threat of nuclear war, Franny must face the tension between herself and her younger brother, figure out where she fits in with her family, and look beyond outward appearances.
Struggling to adapt within her newly blended family in 1964 Mississippi, young Sunny witnesses increasingly scary community agitation when activists from the North arrive in town to help register African Americans to vote.
The remarkable story of two cousins who must take a road trip across American in 1969 in order to let a teen know he's been drafted to fight in Vietnam. Full of photos, music, and figures of the time, this is the masterful story of what it's like to be young and American in troubled times