A heartfelt story of a budding friendship in the thick of the warwinner of the Scott ODell Award for Historical Fiction

Its 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, doesnt exist. It is called Los Alamos, and it is abuzz with activity, as scientists and mathematicians from all over America and Europe work on the biggest secret of allthe gadget. None of themnot J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project; not the mathematicians and scientists; and least of all, Deweyknow how much the gadget is about to change their lives.

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