White Sands, Red Menace

While not quite as brilliantly wonderful as the first book, it’s still quite enjoyable to spend time with these people, and it grew on me more & more; by the end it felt like a solid 4 star book. For awhile I vacillated between 3, 3 ½ or 4 stars, but it ended up a full 4 stars for me. Terry Gordon an......more

This is a continuation of the story of the Gordons, a husband and wife who worked on the development of the atomic bomb under the direction of Oppenheimer, their daughter Suze, and (sort of) adopted daughter Dewey. It's set in the post-war late 1940s, before the familiar '50s Eisenhower era, an inte......more

Another Good One Ellen Klages’ second book in the series continues the story with tremendous success. It is an almost seamless transition from book 1 to book 2. I really enjoyed this book.......more

This is a very nice sequel to The Green Glass Sea. I loved being back in Dewey's world and finding out what happened next as she moved with the Gordon family to Alamogordo, New Mexico. World War II has just ended, and Dewey and Suze are in the eighth grade. Just as in The Green Glass Sea, the charac......more

This sequel to The Green Glass Sea continues the stories of Dewey and Suze as they begin 8th grade in Alamogordo, NM in 1946. Ellen Klages captures perfectly the growing tension and paranoia of Americans at that time, while still creating compelling characters. The book's told in a series of vignett......more