Description
A heartfelt story of a budding friendship in the thick of the war--winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction It's 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.
Author: Ellen Klages
Publisher: Puffin Books
Published: 05/01/2008
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780142411490
ISBN10: 0142411493
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States | 20th Century
- Juvenile Fiction | Technology | General
- Juvenile Fiction | Girls & Women
Author: Ellen Klages
Publisher: Puffin Books
Published: 05/01/2008
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780142411490
ISBN10: 0142411493
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States | 20th Century
- Juvenile Fiction | Technology | General
- Juvenile Fiction | Girls & Women
About the Author
Ellen Klages lives in San Francisco, California.