Bombshells

Three women and two girls face political, racial and personal bombshells during the tension-filled days of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Flossie Johnson is a housekeeper who wants to sit in the front of the bus instead of the back on the way to her new job at the Adams house. Six-year-old Birdie Adams wants to run away and join the circus but guesses she'll have to go to the first grade and hang around with her new baby brother instead. Maybe her big sister needs a little help, too. The...