The Green Glass Sea

By Ellen Klages,

Book cover of The Green Glass Sea

Book description

A heartfelt story of a budding friendship in the thick of the war--winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction

It's 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, doesn't exist. It…

When you buy books, we may earn a commission that helps keep our lights on (or join the rebellion as a member).

Why read it?

1 author picked The Green Glass Sea as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This Scott O’Dell Award winner is historical fiction for middle grade readers.

Set in the New Mexico desert during World War II, Dewey and Suze become unlikely friends when their parents work on the top secret “gadget.” The gadget’s scheduled test lights up the pre-dawn sky for miles around but is explained away as an explosion at a munitions outpost.

A few weeks later Suze’s family takes Dewey with them to visit the green glass sea of Trinitite, a new mineral created as a result of the atomic bomb’s test. Readers will feel the humanity of how war affects us…

From Rebecca's list on little-known US history for children.

If you love The Green Glass Sea...

Ad

Book cover of Virginia Wouldn't Slow Down!: The Unstoppable Dr. Apgar and Her Life-Saving Invention

Virginia Wouldn't Slow Down! By Carrie A. Pearson, Nancy Carpenter (illustrator),

A delightful and distinctive picture book biography about Dr. Virginia Apgar, who invented the standard, eponymous test for evaluating newborn health used worldwide thousands of times every day.

You might know about the Apgar Score. But do you know the brilliant, pioneering woman who invented it? Born at the turn…

Want books like The Green Glass Sea?

Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like The Green Glass Sea.

Browse books like The Green Glass Sea

Book cover of Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
Book cover of Farewell to Manzanar
Book cover of The Eternal Soldier: The True Story of How a Dog Became a Civil War Hero

Share your top 3 reads of 2024!

And get a beautiful page showing off your 3 favorite reads.

1,588

readers submitted
so far, will you?

5 book lists we think you will like!

Interested in the Manhattan Project, friendships, and scientists?

Friendships 1,518 books
Scientists 54 books