The green glass sea

Ellen Klages First published 2006

About this book

It is 1943, and 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. When she reaches Los Alamos, New Mexico, she learns why: he's working on a top secret government program.

Subjects

atomic bomb
children's fiction
fathers and daughters
fathers and daughters, fiction
fiction
friendship
friendship, fiction
girls, fiction
juvenile fiction
manhattan project (u.s.)
scientists
scientists, fiction
united states, history, 20th century, fiction
world war, 1939-1945