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Marie Curie's story has fascinated and inspired young readers decades. The poor Polish girl who worked eight years to be able to afford to attend the Sorbonne in Paris became one of the most important scientists of her day, winning not one but two Nobel Prizes. Her life is a fascinating one, filled with hard work, humanitarianism, and tragedy. Her work with her husband, Pierre - the study of radioactivity and the discovery of the elements radium and polonium - changed science forever. But she is less well known for her selfless efforts during World War to establish mobile X-ray units so that wounded French soldiers could get better care faster. When she stood to profit greatly from her scientific work, she chose not to, making her methods and findings known and available to all of science. As a result, this famous woman spent most of her life in need of money, often to buy the very elements she discovered. Marie Curie's life and work are given a fresh telling, one that also explores the larger picture of the effects of radium in world culture, and its exploitation and sad misuse.

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An engrossing study of a great scientist. --Starred, School Library Journal A solid biography that is also a call to arms for young feminists and health watchdogs. --San Francisco Chronicle Gives readers a terrific sense of Curie's state of mind as she worked and loved. There are many biographies of Curie; this one stands out in its shared focus on her discovery and its legacy. -- Kirkus Reviews Find out just how amazing Curie was . . . in this biography. --Chicago Tribune The groundbreaking is as thrilling as the personal story. The spacious design makes the text easy to read, and occasional photos . . .bring the story closer to readers. -- Booklist Smooth-moving. Biography here melds with social history to present Marie Curie as both shaper of and subject to the limits of early twentieth-century science. -- The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Haunting. Teens will find it an appealing choice for science and biography projects as well as recreational reading. -- VOYA McClafferty writes with clarity and interest; her enthusiasm for her topic makes for fascinating reading. -- Signal

Gives readers a terrific sense of Curie's state of mind as she worked and loved. There are many biographies of Curie; this one stands out in its shared focus on her discovery and its legacy. -- Kirkus Reviews The groundbreaking is as thrilling as the personal story. The spacious design makes the text easy to read, and occasional photos . . .bring the story closer to readers. -- Booklist An engrossing study of a great scientist. --Starred, School Library Journal Smooth-moving. Biography here melds with social history to present Marie Curie as both shaper of and subject to the limits of early twentieth-century science. -- The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books An engrossing study of a great scientist. --Starred, School Library Journal A solid biography that is also a call to arms for young feminists and health watchdogs. --San Francisco Chronicle Gives readers a terrific sense of Curie's state of mind as she worked and loved. There are many biographies of Curie; this one stands out in its shared focus on her discovery and its legacy. -- Kirkus Reviews Find out just how amazing Curie was . . . in this biography. --Chicago Tribune The groundbreaking is as thrilling as the personal story. The spacious design makes the text easy to read, and occasional photos . . .bring the story closer to readers. -- Booklist Smooth-moving. Biography here melds with social history to present Marie Curie as both shaper of and subject to the limits of early twentieth-century science. -- The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Haunting.&nbs An engrossing study of a great scientist. --Starred, School Library Journal A solid biography that is also a call to arms for young feminists and health watchdogs. --San Francisco Chronicle Gives readers a terrific sense of Curie's state of mind as she worked and loved. There are many biographies of Curie; this one stands out in its shared focus on her discovery and its legacy. -- Kirkus Reviews Find out just how amazing Curie was . . . in this biography. --Chicago Tribune The groundbreaking is as thrilling as the personal story. The spacious design makes the text easy to read, and occasional photos . . .bring the story closer to readers. -- Booklist Smooth-moving. Biography here melds with social history to present Marie Curie as both shaper of and subject to the limits of early twentieth-century science. -- The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Haunting. Teens will find it an appealing choice for science and biography projects as well as recreational reading. -- VOYA McClafferty writes with clarity and interest; her enthusiasm for her topic makes for fascinating reading. -- Signal

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CARLA KILLOUGH MCCLAFFERTY is also the author of The Head Bone's Connected to the Neck Bone: The Weird, Wacky, and Wonderful X-Ray, an NSTA-CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children. She lives in North Little Rock, Arkansas.

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