The Resource The atomic city girls, Janet Beard
The atomic city girls, Janet Beard
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- Summary
- 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. The girls spend their evenings socializing and flirting with soldiers, scientists, and workmen at dances and movies, bowling alleys and canteens. June longs to know more about their top-secret assignment and begins an affair with Sam Cantor, the young Jewish physicist from New York who oversees the lab where she works and understands the end goal only too well, while her beautiful roommate Cici is on her own mission: to find a wealthy husband and escape her sharecropper roots. Across town, African-American construction worker Joe Brewer knows nothing of the government's plans, only that his new job pays enough to make it worth leaving his family behind, at least for now. But a breach in security will intertwine his fate with June's search for answers. When the bombing of Hiroshima brings the truth about Oak Ridge into devastating focus, June must confront her ideals about loyalty, patriotism, and war itself
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- ix, 449 pages (large print)
- Isbn
- 9780062791702
- Label
- The atomic city girls
- Title
- The atomic city girls
- Statement of responsibility
- Janet Beard
- Subject
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- trueHistorical fiction
- trueTennessee
- trueGender role
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueMen/women relations
- trueSecond World War era (1939-1945) -- 1939 -- 1945
- trueManhattan Project (U.S.)
- trueSecrets
- trueAdult books for young adults
- Large type books
- trueResearch
- trueScientists
- trueAtomic bomb
- trueWomen and war
- trueWeapons
- trueWomen employees
- trueSecrecy
- true1940s -- 1940 -- 1949
- truePartying
- Oak Ridge (Tenn.) -- Fiction
- trueFemale friendship
- trueMultiple perspectives
- trueWorld War II -- Women's participation
- Manhattan Project (U.S.) -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Tennessee | Oak Ridge -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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. The girls spend their evenings socializing and flirting with soldiers, scientists, and workmen at dances and movies, bowling alleys and canteens. June longs to know more about their top-secret assignment and begins an affair with Sam Cantor, the young Jewish physicist from New York who oversees the lab where she works and understands the end goal only too well, while her beautiful roommate Cici is on her own mission: to find a wealthy husband and escape her sharecropper roots. Across town, African-American construction worker Joe Brewer knows nothing of the government's plans, only that his new job pays enough to make it worth leaving his family behind, at least for now. But a breach in security will intertwine his fate with June's search for answers. When the bombing of Hiroshima brings the truth about Oak Ridge into devastating focus, June must confront her ideals about loyalty, patriotism, and war itself
- Summary
- A novel inspired by the stories of everyday women who contributed to the Manhattan Project during World War II follows the experiences of 18-year-old June, who, in 1944, travels to a city that does not officially exist to work alongside hundreds of other young women operating massive secret machines in support of the war effort
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10574462
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Beard, Janet
- Dewey number
- 813.6
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3602.E248
- LC item number
- A86 2018c
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Manhattan Project (U.S.)
- World War, 1939-1945
- Oak Ridge (Tenn.)
- Target audience
- general
- Label
- The atomic city girls, Janet Beard
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- ix, 449 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9780062791702
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)987279705
- Label
- The atomic city girls, Janet Beard
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- ix, 449 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9780062791702
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)987279705
Subject
- true1940s -- 1940 -- 1949
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueAtomic bomb
- trueFemale friendship
- trueGender role
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- Large type books
- trueManhattan Project (U.S.)
- Manhattan Project (U.S.) -- Fiction
- trueMen/women relations
- trueMultiple perspectives
- Oak Ridge (Tenn.) -- Fiction
- truePartying
- trueResearch
- trueScientists
- trueSecond World War era (1939-1945) -- 1939 -- 1945
- trueSecrecy
- trueSecrets
- trueTennessee
- trueWeapons
- trueWomen and war
- trueWomen employees
- trueWorld War II -- Women's participation
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Tennessee | Oak Ridge -- Fiction
Genre
- trueAdult books for young adults
- Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- Large type books
- trueMultiple perspectives
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