(2) YA Sixties Trilogy series. Wiles's weighty, innovative trilogy (Countdown; Revolution) concludes in the summer of 1969. Fourteen-year-old Molly and her seventeen-year-old cousin Norman journey from South Carolina to San Francisco in search of Molly's brother, who left home after arguing with their father over the Vietnam War. The experience challenges their comfortable white upbringing. Wiles continues the documentary-novel format: scrapbook sections of photographs, which induce a powerful sense of immediacy, are interspersed with the main text. Reading list.

Reviewer: Dean Schneider | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2019

(1) 4-6 Sixties Trilogy series. This sequel to Countdown, set in 1964 Greenwood, Mississippi, stars twelve-year-old Sunny (who's white); occasional interspersed chapters are narrated by black teenager Raymond. Sunny tells of a town turned upside-down, in need of change but resistant to it. This second volume continues the documentary-novel format, with photographs, essays, song lyrics, and quotations. It's an ambitious, heady endeavor that succeeds wonderfully. Bib.

Reviewer: Dean Schneider | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2014

(1) 4-6 Sixties Trilogy series. The narrator of this first-rate novel is eleven-year-old Air Force brat (and middle child) Franny Chapman. With JFK facing down Communists and a father on active duty, Franny has cause to feel on edge. Eye-grabbing graphic spreads of Cold War–era images, lyrics, speeches, and headlines are shrewdly interspersed throughout the book, providing most of the social commentary and historical explication.

Reviewer: Anne Quirk | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2010