The green glass sea /
Ellen Klages.
- New York, N.Y. : Viking, c2006.
- 321 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
Ages 9 up.
A Junior Library Guild selection.
0670061344 (hardcover) 9780670061341 (hardcover)
Fathers and daughters--Fiction. Friendship--Fiction. Scientists--Fiction. Children's literature--2008.