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The Secret Project

by Jonah Winter

Illustrator: Jeannette Winter

Ages: 6+

Published: 2017

Publisher: Beach Lane Books/Simon & Schuster

ISBN: 978-4814-6913-5

Keywords: WWII, Manhattan Project

In a secret part of the New Mexico desert, scientists gather to develop the atomic bomb before anyone else does during World War II. Folk art style illustrations.