| The Green Glass Sea Contributor(s): Klages, Ellen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0756989310 ISBN-13: 9780756989316 Publisher: Turtleback Books OUR PRICE: $18.53 Product Type: Prebound - Other Formats Published: May 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Historical - United States - 20th Century - Juvenile Fiction | Technology - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 790 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5" W x 7.6" (0.75 lbs) 321 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: Ellen Klagesas award-winning debut novel is now in paperback It is 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, doesnat 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 allaathe gadget.a None of themanot J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project; not the mathematicians and scientists; and least of all, Deweyaknow how much athe gadgeta is about to change their lives. |