Where the Ground Meets the Sky by Jacqueline Davies
It's 1944, and war is raging in Europe and the Pacific. Meanwhile, twelve-year-old Hazel is fighting her own battles somewhere in the New Mexico desert. Life has gotten increasingly complicated and lonely since Dad brought Mom and her to live on the Hill, an ugly place surrounded by a chain-link fence and barbed wire. A brilliant physicist, he is working hard on the Big Mystery, while poor Mom, who has always believed that secrets are bad for the soul, has retreated into a world of her own. A powerful, fictional account of the development of the atomic bomb, this novel offers young readers no simple answers. It does, however, give them plenty to think about as well as an intriguing story populated by a background cast of some of the most important characters of the twentieth century.
'Best Children's Book of the Year' - Bank Street College
Jacqueline Davies is a freelance writer who was inspired to write this, her first book, after reading a collection of oral histories of adults who had been children at Los Alamos during World War II. She lives outside Boston, Massachusetts. To learn more about the author, visit her at www.jacquelinedavies.net.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780761451877 |
| ISBN 10 | 0761451870 |
| Title | Where the Ground Meets the Sky |
| Author | Jacqueline Davies |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Amazon Publishing |
| Year published | 2004-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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