Ellen Klages - Viking Juvenile; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
It is 1943, and 11-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is traveling west on a train to live with her scientist father - but no one, not her father nor the military guardians who accompany her, will tell her exactly where he is. When she reaches Los Alamos, New Mexico, she learns why: he's working...
Engrossing historical fiction from the Scott ODell Award-winning author of The Green Glass Sea!. It is 1946. World War II is over, ended by the atomic bomb that Dewey Kerrigans and Suze Gordons scientist parents helped build. Deweys been living with the Gordons since before the wars end,...