WHITE SANDS, RED MENACE

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.

October 2008, hardcover, Viking Juvenile
ISBN: 978-067-006235-5
 

Read More

PORTABLE CHILDHOODS

Stories by Ellen Klages

Introduction by Neil Gaiman
Afterword by the author

Portable Childhoods offers a tantalizing glimpse of what lies hidden just beyond the ordinary.  Described by reviewers as timeless, delightful, chilling, and beautiful, this is short fiction at its best, emerging from a distinctive, powerful voice.

April 2007, hardcover, Tachyon Publications
ISBN:  1-892-39145-7

Read More

THE GREEN GLASS SEA

It is 1943, and 11-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is traveling west on a train to live with her scientist father—but no one, not her father nor the military guardians who accompany her, will tell her exactly where he is. When she reaches Los Alamos, New Mexico, she learns why: he’s working on a top secret government program. Over the next few years, Dewey gets to know eminent scientists, starts tinkering with her own mechanical projects, becomes friends with a budding artist who is as much of a misfit as she is—and, all the while, has no idea how the Manhattan Project is about to change the world. This book’s fresh prose and fascinating subject are like nothing you’ve read before.

October 2006, hardcover, Viking
ISBN:  0-670-06134-4

Read More