The Green Glass Sea By Ellen Klages

This is a very interesting and easy to read book. It takes place in Los Alamos, New Mexico during World War II. Dewey Kerrigan, an 11 year old girl, has lots of trouble fitting in on a military base after living in a small town for many years. Her father is part of The Manhattan Project and is working on “the Gadget” and must keep it a secret, even from his own daughter.


I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys adventure and action and/or wants to learn more about World War II.

 Butterfly Wolves


Trinite, green glass

The Green Glass Sea

    The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages is a story about life at the Manhattan Project, also known as the hill. The book is focused on two families, the Kerrigans and the Gordons, who each have a ten-year-old daughter, Dewey Kerrigan and Suze Gordon. Dewey is the ultimate tomboy and she loves building things. Suze is a super girly-girl who loves comic books. When their lives collide on the hill everything changes. I definitely recommend this book to anyone who likes stories of hard work and friendship, because that’s what the story is about. Along with the green glass sea of course.    

               -cora 

                                                                                                                    

Green Glass Sea

Green Glass Sea




The Green Glass Sea is a very good book that is set in the 1940’s and takes place in a part of New Mexico that technically doesn’t exist. I would definitely recommend this book. It’s really interesting because everything is a secret and it shows an interesting time period from the point of view of a kid. It’s very descriptive so you’ll always have a picture in your head. The only downside of the book is that it skips a lot of time between the chapters. But the interesting plot makes up for it. There are lots of cliffhangers and it will keep you reading and asking questions.



-Bubbles

The Green Glass Sea

Over winter break, I read The Green Glass Sea, by Ellen Klages. Set in World War Two, this book is about a ten-year-old girl named Dewey, nicknamed "Screwey Dewey," who is uprooted from her home in Chicago where she lives comfortlessly with her nana. She moves to an officially noxexistent town: Los Alamos, New Mexico.

Dewey lives friendlessly in a dusty apartment with her papa among lies and bustling scientists all busy with the " Manhattan Project." When urgent business calls her papa away, Dewey is left with no choice but to move in with Susan, a rude girl who strives to be popular. Susan's mother enjoys Dewey's presence, however, Susan takes quite some time to warm up to Dewey. But soon, they are inseparable, until tragedy strikes. The girls quarrel and separate, to Susan's mother's disappointment.   

But soon, after the atomic bomb is tested and used in Japan, ending the war, the joyous girls share an experience that will keep them together forever.

Overflowing with hope, shame, fear, misery, joy, and secrets, this book creates a compelling weekend read for anyone.