| Where the Ground Meets the Sky Contributor(s): Davies, Jacqueline (Author) |
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ISBN: 0761451870 ISBN-13: 9780761451877 Publisher: Skyscape OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Historical - United States - 20th Century - Juvenile Fiction | Technology - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 590 |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.64" W x 8.26" (0.77 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Geographic Orientation - New Mexico |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 67910 Reading Level: 4.1 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 7.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: It's 1944, and war is raging in Europe and the Pacific. Meanwhile, twelve-year-old Hazel is fighting her own battles somewhere in the New Mexico desert. Life has gotten increasingly complicated and lonely since Dad brought Mom and her to live on the Hill, an ugly place surrounded by a chain-link fence and barbed wire. A brilliant physicist, he is working hard on the Big Mystery, while poor Mom, who has always believed that secrets are bad for the soul, has retreated into a world of her own. A powerful, fictional account of the development of the atomic bomb, this novel offers young readers no simple answers. It does, however, give them plenty to think about as well as an intriguing story populated by a background cast of some of the most important characters of the twentieth century. |