The+Rising+Star+of+Rusty+Nail



__**The Rising Star of Rusty Nail**__ **by Lesley Blume** Rusty Nail is a little town in the middle of nowhere, given its name for the few rusty nails that were left behind when settlers chose to tear down the town and move farther west. Even the last coot of the "Coot Capitol of the World" has left Rusty Nail. Set in the 1950s in mid-America, this novel deals with the "Red Scare" many Americans experienced as we feared what the Russians had up their sleeves. When a mysterious Russian woman appears in town, everyone is sure she's a "Commie" spy, but Franny sees this as her chance to get a real piano teacher who can take her farther than her former piano teacher ever could.