

Ethel's Song
Ethel Rosenberg's Life in Poems
Author: Barbara Krasner
Narrator: Romy Nordlinger
Unabridged: 2 hr 57 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 03/21/2023
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, United States, Novels In Verse, Biographical
Synopsis
In 1953, Ethel Rosenberg, a devoted wife and loving mother, faces the electric chair. People say she’s a spy, a Communist, a red. How did she get here? In a series of heart-wrenching poems, Ethel tells her story. The child of Jewish immigrants, Ethel Greenglass grows up on New York City’s Lower East Side.
She dreams of being an actress and a singer but finds romance and excitement in the arms of the charming Julius Rosenberg. Both are ardent supporters of rights for workers, but are they spies? Who is passing atomic secrets to the Soviets? Why does everyone seem out to get them?
This first book for young readers about Ethel Rosenberg is a fascinating portrait of a commonly misunderstood figure from American history, and vividly relates a story that continues to have relevance today.