num_pages: 324
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, 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 on a top secret government program. Over the next few years, Dewey gets to know eminent scientists, starts tinkering with her own mechanical projects, becomes friends with a budding artist who is as much of a misfit as she is and, all the while, has no idea how the Manhattan Project is about to change the world. This book's fresh prose and fascinating subject are like nothing you've read before.
language: English
title: The Green Glass Sea
titlecomplete: The Green Glass Sea (Green Glass, #1)
genres: Historical, World War II, Childrens, Juvenile, Young Adult, Middle Grade, War, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 7425
places: New Mexico, Los Alamos, New Mexico
series: The Gordon Family Saga
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Scott O'Dell Award, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Rhode Island Teen Book Award, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children's Literature, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award
publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers