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The radium girls : the scary but true story of the poison that made people glow in the dark
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- ISBN: 9781728209470 (softcover)
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Physical Description:
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xvii, 408 pages ; 22 cm - Edition: Young readers' edition.
- Publisher: Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks eXplore, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "This work is adapted for young readers and is based on The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore, copyright 2017 by Kate More, published by Sourcebooks" -- title verso |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Author's note -- List of key characters -- Prologue -- Part one: Knowledge -- 1. First day -- 2. Wartime warning -- 3. All change -- 4. The mysterious maladies of Mollie Maggia -- 5. Girls wanted -- 6. Mere coincidence -- 7. Radium games -- 8. Strange symptoms -- 9. "Something going on" -- 10. Investigations underway -- 11. Warning shots -- 12. Lip... dip... paint -- 13. Truth and lies -- 14. Hoffman helps -- 15. Making history -- 16. Hope -- Part two: Power -- 17. The list of the doomed -- 18. Dead end -- 19. Until death do us part -- 20. Make or break -- 21. "Fraud of frauds" -- 22. In the shadow of the church spire -- 23. Back from the grave -- 24. The trial of the decade -- 25. On the stand -- 26. "Far from the finished in this fight -- 27. Settlement? -- 28. The chill of fear -- 29. Happy ending? -- 30. Midnight machinations -- 31. A cold, cold winter -- 32. Time-bomb tumors -- 33. A very big mistake -- 34. The end of the adventure -- 35. Brave until the last -- Part three: Justice -- 36. Conspiracy? -- 37. "Very suspicious" -- 38. Verdict -- 39. Fighting back -- 40. A desire for justice -- 41. Legal champion -- 42. A long and lonely fall -- 43. Her day in court -- 44. Too weak for tears -- 45. Bedside hearing -- 46. The society of the living dead -- 47. One more day. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Pemberton and District Public Library | J 363.17 MOO (Text) | 31894000608751 | Junior Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
