![]() ![]() Franny's beloved older sister is keeping secrets and regularly disappearing, her mother's ordered household is upended by the increasingly erratic behavior of Uncle Otts (a WWI veteran), and Franny's relationship with her best friend Margie is on the brink as both vie for the same boy's attention. Wiles palpably recreates the fear kids felt when air-raid sirens and duck-and-cover drills were routine, and when watching President Kennedy's televised speech announcing the presence of missiles in Cuba was an extra-credit assignment. ![]() ![]() Eleven-year-old Franny, a middle child, is in the thick of it-her father (like Wiles's was) is a pilot stationed at Andrews Air Force Base. Wiles heads north from her familiar Mississippi terrain (Each Little Bird That Sings) for this "documentary novel" set in Maryland during the Cuban Missile Crisis. ![]()
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