Where the Ground Meets the Sky

Synopsis
Twelve-year-old Hazel Moore and her mother arrive at Los Alamos, New Mexico, to be reunited with her physicist father. It is 1944, and war is raging on five continents. Hazel doesn't know why her family has come to this mysterious, remote place. She doesn't know what her father is working on, night and day, in the secret laboratory. But she’s determined to find out. Will she be able to uncover the mystery of Los Alamos? And how will the secrets of this place change her family forever?

Awards
• NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People 2003
• IRA/CBC Children's Award Notable Book for Fiction/Intermediate 2003
• New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age 2003
• Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award Master List 2003
• Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Books of the Year 2003
• Great Stone Face Book Award Master List 2003-2004
• Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Choices 2003
• Mark Twain Award Master List 2003-2004

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