The Green Glass Sea
A Childrens, Fiction, World War II book. Music is the hidden arithmetic of the soul, which does not know that it deals with numbers. (Paraphrasing Gottfried Wilhelm...
Ellen Klagesas award-winning debut novel is now in paperback! It is 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, doesnat 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 allaathe gadget.a None of themanot J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project; not the mathematicians and scientists; and least of all, Deweyaknow how much athe gadgeta is about to change their lives.
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- Pages: 321 pages
- ISBN: 9780756989316 / 756989310
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Music is the hidden arithmetic of the soul, which does not know that it deals with numbers. (Paraphrasing Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz) Ellen Klages, The Green Glass Sea //
Grade Range 6th-9thWinner, 2007 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical FictionWinner, 2007 Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children's LiteratureWinner, 2007 New Mexico State Book Award (YA)Set in 1943, during the time of WWII, eleven year-old Dewey Kerrigan is traveling west to live with her scientist father. No one, neither her father nor... The Green Glass Sea is intended for students in grades 6-8 and has won the Scott ODell award (2007). This book is set in 1943, where Dewey Kerrigan lives with her mathematician father in a town that does not exist. The town, which is referred to as Los Alamos is home to scientists and mathematicians from all over Europe and America.... Great coming-to-age book with a heart warming ending!