The Art of Keeping Cool

Coincidentally, book #2 of 2007 (like the first one) is also about a time and place where people are fretting about a potential invasion that history tells us never happened. It makes me wonder which of the things we worry about now will end up being much ado about nothing (remember Y2K?) and, conversely, which things we should be paying attention to now that we're just not noticing.

In this one, The Art of Keeping Cool, the place is Rhode Island and the time is 1942. The United States has just come into World War Two, and there's a general fear of Germans, both of the ones that could come from the ocean, and the ones who live in the community, like Abel Hoffman, an artist who has fled Nazi policies about "degenerate" art.

This one is from my classroom library; it's firmly in the YA category, with a 13-year-old protagonist.