| Where the Ground Meets the Sky (paperback) |
| Specifications | 5.5" X 8.25"; 224 pages |
| Author(s) | Jacqueline Davies |
| Interest/Age Group | Grades 3+ |
| List Price | | US$ 5.95 |  | |  |
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About
the book:
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.
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. View the
Teacher’s
Guide, created by the author. To learn more about the author visit her
Web site:
http://www.jacquelinedavies.net/
