White Sands, Red Menace (The Gordon Family Saga)

Engrossing historical fiction from the Scott ODell Award-winning author of The Green Glass Sea! It is 1946. World War II is over ended by the atomic bomb that Dewey Kerrigans and Suze Gordons scientist parents helped build. Deweys been living with the Gordons since before the wars end before her father died moving south with them to Alamogordo New Mexico. At the White Sands Missile Range Phil Gordon is working on rockets that will someday go to the moon; at home Terry Gordon is part of the scientists movement against the Bomb. Dewey and Suze have conflicts of their own. Where does a girl who likes physics and math fit in? How do you know the right time to speak up and the right time to keep your head down? And most important of all: What defines a family?