
The Green Glass Sea
by
Ellen Klages
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780142411490
Publication Date: 05/01/2008
Age Range: 8-12 years
Edition Description: Reprint
A heartfelt story of a budding friendship in the thick of the warwinner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction
It's 1943, and eleven-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is en route to New Mexico to live with her mathematician father. Soon she arrives at a town that, officially, doesn't exist. It is called Los Alamos, and it is abuzz with activity, as scientists and mathematicians from all over America and Europe work on the biggest secret of all"the gadget." None of themnot J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project; not the mathematicians and scientists; and least of all, Deweyknow how much "the gadget" is about to change their lives.
It's 1943, and eleven-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is en route to New Mexico to live with her mathematician father. Soon she arrives at a town that, officially, doesn't exist. It is called Los Alamos, and it is abuzz with activity, as scientists and mathematicians from all over America and Europe work on the biggest secret of all"the gadget." None of themnot J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project; not the mathematicians and scientists; and least of all, Deweyknow how much "the gadget" is about to change their lives.
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