Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium
by Carla Killough McClafferty
Meet Manya Sklodowska, better known today as Marie Curie, the co-discoverer of radium,... read more
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- Grade
- 4-12
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Cultural Area
- Women / Girls
Year Published 2006
Word Count 26,687
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1050L
- ATOS Reading Level: 8.3
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 105300
- Curricular Area
- Science
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Women chemists
- Chemists
- Curie, Marie
- Physicists
- Scientists
- Physicists--Poland--Biography
- Women physicists--Poland--Biography
- Curie, Marie, 1867-1934
- Radium
- Women chemists--Poland--Biography
- Chemists--Poland--Biography
- Biography & Autobiography | General
- Women scientists
- Women physicists
- Poland
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Awards & Distinctions 2

Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2021
Commended, 2007

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2021
Honor, 2007
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