The green glass sea

Description:

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.

subjects: Juvenile fiction,  Fiction,  Fathers and daughters,  Scientists,  Manhattan Project (U.S.),  Friendship,  World War, 1939-1945,  Atomic bomb,  Children's fiction,  Girls, fiction,  United states, history, 20th century, fiction,  Scientists, fiction,  Friendship, fiction,  Fathers and daughters, fiction