"Strange Fruit": Representations of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in Children's and Young Adult Nonfiction

This essay looks at representations of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in interactive nonfiction for young readers, and both examines the kinds of interactivity of these texts, and considers developments in what we know about the Rosenberg case. The various ways in which these texts invite reader participation, namely in placing readers in the position of jurors for the Rosenberg case, as well as developments such as the 1995 release of the Venona documents, open narrative possibilities that ultimately resist master narrative.