Green Glass Sea

English

ISBN: 0142411493

EAN: 9780142411490

Category: Juvenile Fiction / Family / Parents/Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / Friendship/Juvenile Fiction / General/

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Release Date: 05/08/2008

Age Range: 9-11

Synopsis: Ellen Klages???s 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, 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.

Awards: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award – null  Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award – null  Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award – null  Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award – null 

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Green Glass Sea

Illustrated: No

Format: UK-B Format Paperback

Height: 0.96 inches

Width: 5.08 inches

Length: 7.72 inches

Weight: 9.45 oz

Pages: 368