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Author Moore, Kate (Writer and editor), author.

Title The radium girls : the scary but true story of the poison that made people glow in the dark / Kate Moore.

Publication Info. Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks eXplore, [2020]
©2020

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Edition Young readers' edition.
Description xvii, 408 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
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"--Verso.
Summary "Now adapted for young readers! The incredible true story of the young women exposed to the "wonder drug" radium and their struggle for justice" -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-391) and index.
Contents Knowledge. First day ; Wartime warning ; All change ; The mysterious maladies of Mollie Maggia ; Girls wanted ; Mere coincidence? ; Radium games ; Strange symptoms ; "Something going on" ; Investigations underway ; Warning shots ; Lip, dip, paint ; Truth and lies ; Hoffman helps ; Making history ; Hope -- Power. The list of the doomed ; Dead end ; Until death do us part ; Make or break ; "Fraud of frauds" ; In the shadow of the church spire ; Back from the grave ; The trial of the decade ; On the stand ; "Far from finished in this fight" ; Settlement? ; The chill of fear ; Happy ending? ; Midnight machinations ; A cold, cold winter ; Time-bomb tumors ; A very big mistake ; The end of the adventure ; Brave until the last -- Justice. Conspiracy? ; "Very suspicious" ; Verdict ; Fighting back ; A desire for justice ; Legal champion ; A long and lonely fall ; Her day in court ; Too weak for tears ; Bedside hearing ; The society of the living dead ; One more day.
Subject Watch dial painters -- Diseases -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Radium paint -- Toxicology -- Juvenile literature.
Consumers' leagues -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Industrial hygiene -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Women -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Women employees -- Diseases -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Employers' liability -- United States -- Case studies -- Juvenile literature.
Watch dial painters.
Radium paint.
Consumers' leagues.
Industrial hygiene.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Women.
World War, 1914-1918 -- War work.
Employers' liability. (OCoLC)fst00909317
Consumers' leagues. (OCoLC)fst00876439
Industrial hygiene. (OCoLC)fst00971122
Radium paint -- Toxicology. (OCoLC)fst01088391
War work. (OCoLC)fst01355300
Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Watch dial painters -- Juvenile literature.
Occupational health and safety -- Juvenile literature.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Juvenile literature.
Watch dial painters.
Occupational health and safety.
World War, 1914-1918.
World War (1914-1918) (OCoLC)fst01180746
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Young adult literature.
Instructional and educational works. (OCoLC)fst01919931
Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Instructional and educational works.
Added Title Adaptation of (work): Radium girls: the dark story of America's shining women
ISBN 9781728210346 hardcover
1728210348 hardcover
9781728209470 trade paperback
1728209471 trade paperback
9781544455372 FollettBound
1544455372 FollettBound
9781728209487 electronic publication
Standard No. 760789294488

 
    
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