White Sands, Red Menace
White Sands, Red Menace
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White Sands, Red Menace

Written by Ellen Klages
Book #2 in the The Gordon Family Saga Series
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8 - 12
Reading age
344
Page count
67,529
Word count
690L
Lexile measure
Oct 2, 2008
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It is 1946, and the events of “The Green Glass Sea” have changed the world?and Dewey Kerrigan’s life. She’s now living near the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico with the Gordon family. Dr. Gordon is working on rockets that will someday go to the moon; Mrs. Gordon is working on stopping the Bomb. Meanwhile, Dewey and her ?sister, ? Suze, share secrets, art, and science as they adjust to high school in an isolated desert town. Then, like a different kind of dropped bomb, Dewey’s long-lost mother, Rita Gallucci, reappears in their lives. And she wants to take her daughter away.

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technologyfamilyscientists20th centuryfamily lifegirls and womengirlsscience and technologythe atomic bombfriendshipgrowing uppost-war Americafamilieslossidentitychildhood in the 1940swomen in science

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9780670062355
    Publication Date
    October 2, 2008
    Publisher
    Viking Books For Young Readers
    Original Publication Date
    October 2, 2008
    Page Count
    344
    Word Count
    67529
    Audience
    Middle Grade
    Reading Age
    8 - 12 years
    Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
    2010287007
    WorldCat Number (OCLC)
    221152481
    Lexile® Level
    690L
    Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
    ~P
    ATOS® Book Level
    4.2
    Accelerated Reader® Points
    10
    Accelerated Reader Quiz
    124705
    Accelerated Reader Interest Level
    MG

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