| 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. |
| Abstract |
"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. |
| Local note | Joyner TRC copy 30372017453173 purchased in memory of James Thompson, 2021. |
| 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"--Verso. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-391) and index. |
| Interest grade level |
Grades 7-12 |
| Audience |
880 Lexile |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Moore, Kate (Writer and editor). Radium girls Young readers' edition. Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks eXplore, 2020. 9781728209487 |
| Genre/form | Instructional and educational works. |
| Genre/form | Case studies. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| Genre/form | Juvenile works. |
| Genre/form | Instructional and educational works. |
| Contains title |
Adaptation of (work): Radium girls: the dark story of America's shining women. |
| LCCN | 2020016986 |
| ISBN | 9781728210346 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 1728210348 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781728209470 (trade paperback) |
| ISBN | 1728209471 (trade paperback) |
| ISBN | 9781544455372 (FollettBound) |
| ISBN | 1544455372 (FollettBound) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
