Pub Date: May 1, 2008
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Code: 0790
Features: Bibliography, Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 08 to 12
Physical Info: 1.00" H x 7.60" L x 5.00" W ( 0.60 lbs) 368 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States 20th Century | Technology | General | Girls and Women | Family | Parents
Series: Gordon Family Saga
Description: In this award-winning debut novel, 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. It is 1943 and her destination is New Mexico, where scientists are working on the Manhattan Project.
Review Quotes: "Klages makes an impressive debut with an ambitious, meticulously researched novel set during WWII. Writing from the points of view of two displaced children, she successfully recreates life at Los Alamos Camp, where scientists and mathematicians converge with their families to construct and test the first nuclear bomb."--Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Cameo appearances are made by such famous names as Richard Feynman (he helps Dewey build a radio) and Robert Oppenheimer, but the story, an intense but accessible page-turner, firmly belongs to the girls and their families; history and story are drawn together with confidence." -The Horn Book Magazine, starred review