Girls of Atomic City The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II

Name: Girls of Atomic City The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
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ISBN: 9781451617535

ISBN-10: 1451617534

ISBN-13: 9781451617535

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Authors: Denise Kiernan

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THE GIRLS OF ATOMIC C ITY AT THE HEIGHT OF WORLD WAR II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, consuming more electricity than New York City. But to most of the world, the town did not exist. Thousands of civilians—many of them young women from small towns across the South—were recruited to this secret city, enticed by solid wages and the promise of war-ending work. Kept very much in the dark, few would ever guess the true nature of the tasks they performed each day in the hulking factories in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains. That is, until the end of the war—when Oak Ridge’s secret was revealed. Drawing on the voices of the women who lived it—women who are now in…

Book details

List price: $26.99
Publisher: Touchstone
Publication date: 3/11/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Denise Kiernan has written for several Scholastic magazines, including Math and DynaMath. A former teacher and standardized test trainer, she is also the author of Sports Math and Great Graphs, Charts & Tables That Build Real-Life Math Skills (Scholastic Teaching Resources).