| The Green Glass Sea Contributor(s): Klages, Ellen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0142411493 ISBN-13: 9780142411490 Publisher: Puffin Books OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2008 Annotation: In this remarkable debut novel, 11-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is traveling west on a train to live with her scientist father, but no one will tell her exactly where he is. It is 1943 and her destination is Alamos, New Mexico, where scientists are working on the Manhattan Project. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Historical - United States - 20th Century - Juvenile Fiction | Technology - General - Juvenile Fiction | Girls & Women |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 790 |
| Series: Gordon Family Saga |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5" W x 7.6" (0.60 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's - Geographic Orientation - Nevada |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 109556 Reading Level: 4.6 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 10.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A heartfelt story of a budding friendship in the thick of the war--winner 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 them--not J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project; not the mathematicians and scientists; and least of all, Dewey--know how much the gadget is about to change their lives. |