los alamos (n.m.)

When Davey Wexler's father is killed in a holdup in Atlantic City, her mother moves Davey and her brother to Los Alamos to get away from the memories--but Davey is a girl frozen in fear and anger, until she meets an older boy called Wolf who can read her tiger eyes.

"The world's greatest scientists gather in a secret town in the desert to develop the atomic bomb."--.

When Davey Wexler's father is killed in a holdup in Atlantic City, her mother moves Davey and her brother to Los Alamos to get away from the memories--but Davey is a girl frozen in fear and anger, until she meets an older boy called Wolf who can read her tiger eyes.

Archaeologist Nathan Lee Swift has always respected the ruins he has explored and never crossed the line between noble discovery and the plundering of ruins, until one night when he gives in to his professor's greed and becomes a common grave robber, but when a wealthy collector opens a vial of blood dating back to the first century, releasing a plague which threatens to destroy humanity, Nathan finds a chance for redemption.

Maggie's enforced move to New Mexico during World War II with her scientist father creates friction between them as he becomes more and more involved in his secret work.

Describes what it was like to be child in the secret community of Los Alamos, New Mexico in its first decade, 1943-1952, where the children of scientists, machinists, technicians, and construction workers grew up in the shadow of the Manhattan Project.

While her father works on the Manhattan Project, eleven-year-old gadget lover and outcast Dewey Kerrigan lives in Los Alamos Camp, and becomes friends with Suze, another young girl who is shunned by her peers.

Twelve-year-old Hazel is uprooted from her quiet, East coast life during World War II to move to a secluded army post in New Mexico where her father and other scientists begin working on a top secret project.