The Green Glass Sea
by Ellen Klages
Publisher: Penguin Group 2006 336 pages
Genre: Historical Fiction, Death & Dying, and Friendship
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Summary: Dewey Carrigan’s father is a scientist working for the government under World War II. She moves to New Mexico to live with her father after her grandmother has a stroke. She moves into a secret government compound where everything is top secret. She meets Suze, a very popular girl and she ends up moving in with Suze and her family when her father is called away. While Dewey’s father is killed while he is away and Dewey is left without any family at all, due to the fact her mother walked out when she was 2. Dewey has to deal with her father’s death and say goodbye to him and eventually she works for through it. She lives with Suze’s family from then on.
Response: I loved this book. It helped me to work through some very profound fears that I have been dealing with at the time that I read it.
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