Lisa Dugan, children's book buyer, Koen-Levy Wholesalers.(The Green Glass Sea )(Brief article)

My Penguin sales rep recommended Ellen Klages's The Green Glass Sea (Viking, Oct.), saying the reps chose it as their favorite novel of the list. It's not one of the publisher-proclaimed blockbusters of the fall season, but it's such an interesting read and is just the sort of book that children's booksellers will embrace and handsell. Klages vividly conveys the community of scientists and their families at Los Alamos during the time of …