Sophie’s Dream - ELI
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‘It’s late. Sophie is asleep in her bed and she is having a lovely dream. She is dreaming about...
#Organicjesus: Finding Your Way to an Unprocessed, Gmo-Free Christianity
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If Generation Next is supposed to question everything and trust no one, where does faith fit...
Reproduction in Mammals: The Female Perspective
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Newborn mammals can weigh as little as a dime or as much as a motorcycle. Some receive milk for only...
Anatomy for Plastic Surgery of the Face, Head and Neck
R. Shane Tubbs, Marios Loukas, Koichi Watanabe and Mohammadali M. Shoja
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The illustrations are in superb quality colour (as expected from this publisher), whether as...
Adventures of a Female Medical Detective: In Pursuit of Smallpox and AIDS
Mary Guinan and Anne D. Mather
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In 1974, a young doctor arrived at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with one goal in...
Mei-Mei's Lucky Birthday Noodles: A Loving Story of Adoption, Chinese Culture and a Special Birthday Treat
Shan-Shan Chen and Heidi Goodman
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A loving story of adoption, Chinese culture and a special birthday treat Mei-Mei is Chinese but not...
The Worst Witch
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The Worst Witch written and illustrated by Jill Murphy is reissued with exciting new branding and...
The Radium Girls: The Scary But True Story of the Poison That Made People Glow in the Dark was adapted for younger readers by Kate Moore from her bestselling novel The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women.
It tells the story of the wonder drug of the early 1900s, radium. It was thought to cure illnesses, and its luminescent properties made it ideal for glow-in-the-dark watches and for dials and instruments of pilots during WWI. To paint these devices, women would lick the brushes, dip them into the radium, paint, then repeat. The women did not know they were becoming sick with radium poisoning. Some did not show symptoms until years after they stopped working with the radium.
If you read the original version, you know it is detailed and includes timelines of multiple people. The version for a younger audience is written with age-appropriate content, but it is still incredibly detailed and more than 400 pages. The story shows these women as individuals, showing their separate lives, but also the strong, tight-knit group who fought for themselves and to ensure workplace safety for all.
This book is perfect for assigned reading for history or science classes.
This 200-word review was published on Philomathinphila.com on 9/1/20.
ISAN - International Sensory Assassin Network
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THE WORLD HAS CHANGED. SCIENTISTS WARNED IT WOULD HAPPEN. Meteors devastated the Earth. World...
LUCY and la petite nouvelle: The Newcomer (The Front Porch Diaries #1)
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Nine-year-old Lucy Miller loved to dream about visiting other countries, but from her front porch...
Historical Children Middle Grade