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T h e G r e e n G l a s s S e a <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #008000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 23px;">By Eleen Klages media type="custom" key="7798149" align="center" width="108" height="108"



<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 16px;">STUCK in the middle of a top secret event, two young girls live in a place where all they see is __<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 16px;">green __<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 16px;">, ﻿ __<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 16px;">green __ <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 16px;">army trucks, army soldiers in there __<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 16px;">green __ <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 16px;">uniforms, and __<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 16px;">green __ <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 16px;">buildings. This is because it is the middle of World War <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 16px;">2, and there parents and many other adults are living in a top secret place called the "Hill". This is where the war will end, at least they hope. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 16px;">My book is __The Green Glass Sea__ by Eleen Klages which made me really think about life as a person during the war. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 16px;">My book, __The Green Glass Sea__,is a historical/science fiction book. In this book, it includes things like math-which is a type of science, physics, chemistry, and bomb making. All these things tie into making the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 16px;">The author's style is interesting, she kind of tells the book in two different perspectives of the two main characters-Dewey and Suze. It is not particularly funny, and it is not very unusual compared to other books that I have read that share two perspectives like __The Red Pyramid__ or __Flipped__. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 16px;">It was somewhat hard for me to relate to the characters or understand them because they are girls and they think like girls, and as you may have noticed-im not a girl. I do like how the characters are nice and they don't really make fun or are mean to each other for the whole book. Some characters personalities...:  <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 16px;">Suze Gordon: not <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">the nicest at the beginning, becomes nicer, kind of is a tomboy, likes to be on top   <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 16px;">Dewey Kerrigan: nice, shy at some parts, likes to build, awkward   <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 16px;">Jimmy Kerrigan (Dewey's Father): respectful, loving to Dewey, devoted to his work   <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 16px;">Terry Gordon (Suze's <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Mother): loving to both Dewey and Suze, devoted to her work, generous    <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 16px;">The setting mostly takes place on the "Hill" which was a top secret area in New Mexico where people were working on the making of the atomic bomb. The "Hill" is very different from the world that I know because it has fences, the rules are very strict, and there are military personnel all around. It is hard for me to picture the setting, all I can really see is a red-dirt road with soldiers all around and barbed wire fences in some areas off limits, I also see a giant lab building where everything in the making of the bomb is happening. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 16px;">The plot is mostly this: <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 16px;">A girl, Dewey, who only has her dad lives in a top secret area where they are making something for the war, she knows they are making something but she does not know what it is. Another girl, Suze, who is a little older than Dewey lives there with her two parents, the rest is the same with the bomb. Soon they cross paths, but Suze doesn't really like Dewey. Dewey's dad has to leave for meetings in D.C. about the war, he asks Mrs. Gordon (Suze's mom) if Dewey could stay there. She says yes and Suze and Dewey start to become very close friends. Near the end, after tragedy strikes Dewey, she and Suze become as close as friends could ever get, all during the making of the bomb. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 16px;">Someone would want to read this book if they are a fan of history and if they like books about friendship, loss, struggle, and slow books with not a lot of action. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 16px;">If you like the topics that are listed above, you are probably a good choice for this novel. If you are not, it may be a struggle to read this whole book, like me, I thought it was boring and the "most exciting part of the book" which was supposed to be the end... not really exciting. This book may not be a very exciting one, but it does teach very valuable lessons. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> 2 STARS IN MY BOOK

Images found at: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149132.The_Green_Glass_Sea http://www.historylink101.com/ww2-planes/fat-boy-atomic-bomb.htm http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/12/blast-los-alamos-researchers-accidentially-demolish-building-with-a-cannon/