The atomic city girls /
Beard, Janet,
The atomic city girls / Janet Beard. - First edition. - William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018 - 353, 18 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Includes an 18-page postscript (P.S.) section offering "insights, interviews, and more."
In November 1944, eighteen-year-old June Walker boards an unmarked bus, destined for a city that doesn't officially exist. Oak Ridge, Tennessee has sprung up in a matter of months, a town of trailers and segregated houses, 24-hour cafeterias, and constant security checks. There, June joins hundreds of other young girls operating massive machines whose purpose is never explained. They know they are helping to win the war, but must ask no questions and reveal nothing to outsiders.
9780062666710 0062666711
Manhattan Project (U.S.)--Fiction.
Women employees--History--Tennessee--Oak Ridge--20th century--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Women--Tennessee--Oak Ridge--Fiction.
Women--Tennessee--Oak Ridge--Fiction.
Uranium enrichment--History--20th century--Fiction.
Official secrets--History--United States--20th century--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Tennessee--Oak Ridge--Fiction.
Oak Ridge (Tenn.)--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
PS3602.E248 / A86 2018
813/.6
The atomic city girls / Janet Beard. - First edition. - William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018 - 353, 18 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Includes an 18-page postscript (P.S.) section offering "insights, interviews, and more."
In November 1944, eighteen-year-old June Walker boards an unmarked bus, destined for a city that doesn't officially exist. Oak Ridge, Tennessee has sprung up in a matter of months, a town of trailers and segregated houses, 24-hour cafeterias, and constant security checks. There, June joins hundreds of other young girls operating massive machines whose purpose is never explained. They know they are helping to win the war, but must ask no questions and reveal nothing to outsiders.
9780062666710 0062666711
Manhattan Project (U.S.)--Fiction.
Women employees--History--Tennessee--Oak Ridge--20th century--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Women--Tennessee--Oak Ridge--Fiction.
Women--Tennessee--Oak Ridge--Fiction.
Uranium enrichment--History--20th century--Fiction.
Official secrets--History--United States--20th century--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Tennessee--Oak Ridge--Fiction.
Oak Ridge (Tenn.)--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
PS3602.E248 / A86 2018
813/.6