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Description:

Franny is a schoolgirl who has a best friend named Margie. Her uncle has war "nightmares". There is friend betrayal and drama. But even most importantly a crisis.

subjects: Nineteen sixties,  Juvenile fiction,  History,  Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962,  Fiction,  Girls,  Children's fiction,  Washington (d.c.), fiction,  Fear, fiction,  Brothers and sisters, fiction,  Family, fiction

People: Franny,  Margie,  Drew,  Chris,  Jo Ellen,  John F. Kennedey

Places: Mississippi

Times: 1960's