The radium girls : the scary but true story of the poison that made people glow in the dark

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

The incredible true story of the young women exposed to the "wonder drug" radium and their struggle for justice

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ISBN: 9781728210346
Physical Description xvii, 408 pages ; 23 cm
Edition Young readers' edition.
Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2020.

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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, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

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The Radium Girls: Young Readers' Edition : The Scary but True Story of the Poison That Made People Glow in the Dark

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The Radium Girls: Young Readers' Edition : The Scary but True Story of the Poison That Made People Glow in the Dark

Section	Section Description	Page Number
	Author's Note	p. ix
	List of Key Characters	p. xii
	Prologue	p. xv
Part 1	Knowledge	p. 1
1	First Day	p. 3
2	Wartime Warning	p. 9
3	All Change	p. 17
4	The Mysterious Maladies of Mollie Maggia	p. 22
5	Girls Wanted	p. 28
6	Mere Coincidence?	p. 33
7	Radium Games	p. 39
8	Strange Symptoms	p. 45
9	"Something Going On"	p. 52
10	Investigations Underway	p. 60
11	Warning Shots	p. 68
12	Lip... Dip... Paint	p. 75
13	Truth and Lies	p. 82
14	Hoffman Helps	p. 90
15	Making History	p. 100
16	Hope	p. 109
Part 2	Power	p. 119
17	The List of the Doomed	p. 121
18	Dead End	p. 130
19	Until Death Do Us Part	p. 137
20	Make or Break	p. 143
21	"Fraud of Frauds"	p. 151
22	In the Shadow of the Church Spire	p. 158
23	Back from the Grave	p. 164
24	The Trial of the Decade	p. 170
25	On the Stand	p. 177
26	"Far from Finished in This Fight"	p. 188
27	Settlement?	p. 192
28	The Chill of Fear	p. 199
29	Happy Ending?	p. 205
30	Midnight Machinations	p. 212
31	A Cold, Cold Winter	p. 223
32	Time-Bomb Tumors	p. 229
33	A Very Big Mistake	p. 235
34	The End of the Adventure	p. 240
35	Brave Until the Last	p. 246
Part 3	Justice	p. 251
36	Conspiracy?	p. 253
37	"Very Suspicious"	p. 258
38	Verdict	p. 265
39	Fighting Back	p. 271
40	A Desire for Justice	p. 277
41	Legal Champion	p. 283
42	A Long and Lonely Fall	p. 289
43	Her Day in Court	p. 294
44	Too Weak for Tears	p. 302
45	Bedside Hearing	p. 309
46	The Society of the Living Dead	p. 315
47	One More Day	p. 321
	Epilogue	p. 330
	Postscript	p. 345
	Timeline of Events	p. 349
	Glossary	p. 354
	Abbreviations	p. 360
	Photo Acknowledgments	p. 362
	Notes	p. 369
	Select Bibliography	p. 388
	Index	p. 392
	Acknowledgments	p. 405
	About the Author	p. 409

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