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Ellen Klages’s award winning debut book has become in paperback! It's 1943, and eleven-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is on the way to New Mexico, to reside with her mathematician father. Quickly she gets to a city that, formally, doesn’t occur. It's named Los Alamos, and it's abuzz with activity, as researchers and mathematicians from throughout Europe and America focus on the largest key of all—“the gadget.” None of them—not T.