White sands, red menace

By Ellen Klages

Subjects: Family life, London (england), fiction, Juvenile fiction, Scientists, Girls, Fiction, Families, Germany, fiction, Children's fiction, Space flight, fiction, Schools, fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction

Description: It is 1946, and Dewey Kerrigan is now living near the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico with the Gordon family. Dewey and her "sister," Suze, share secrets, art, and science as they adjust to high school in an isolated desert town. Then, Dewey's long-lost mother, Rita Gallucci, reappears in their lives.