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White Sands, Red Menace
By Klages, Ellen
Publishers Summary:
It is 1946, and Dewey Kerrigan is now living near the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico with the Gordon family. Dewey and her "sister," Suze, share secrets, art, and science as they adjust to high school in an isolated desert town. Then, Dewey's long-lost mother, Rita Gallucci, reappears in their lives.
- ISBN
- 978-0-67006-235-5
- Publisher
- Viking
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2008
Gr 5-9 In this sequel to "The Green Glass Sea" (Viking, 2006), Dewey and the Gordon family have relocated from Los Alamos to Alamogordo, NM, now that World War II is over, because Mr. Gordon has been offered a job to develop rockets for the U.S. government. Dewey and Suze Gordon are comfortable with one another, almost like sisters, and begin eighth grade together at a new school, where they are required to take home economics instead of shop. Suze's mother has had to put her academic career as a chemist on hold and is struggling wit...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2008
It's been almost a year since Dewey and Suze visited The Green Glass Sea (rev. 11/06); and "the gadget" (the atom bomb) having been successfully deployed against the Japanese and World War II ended, Dewey and the Gordon family have moved south from Los Alamos to Alamogordo, where Mr. Gordon is working on the V-2 roc...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on April 1, 2009
Dewey and the Gordons () move to Alamogordo where Mr. Gordon is working on the V-2 rocket. Suze tries to negotiate...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Junior Library Guild
Reviewed on October 1, 2008
A sequel to The Green Glass Sea yet able to stand on its own, White Sands, Red Menace realistically portrays postWorld War Two America, complete with fears about racial integration and nuclear war, mixed with hopes for lasting peace and prosperity. The real heart of the book, though, is not its depiction of a particular place in time, but its examina...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
