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Radium Girls
Author
Moore, Kate
Number of Pages:
408
Category:
Genre
NonFiction
Challenges & Overcoming, Other
Best Suited for:
Middle School, High School
Part of a Series:
Not Part of a Series
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Book Summary
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore is a compelling nonfiction book that tells the true story of young women who worked in radium dial factories in the early 20th century. Tasked with painting watch dials using glowing radium paint, they were unknowingly exposed to serious health risks. The book follows their journey as they begin to question the safety of their work and fight for justice. It's a powerful story of courage, resilience, and the human cost of industrial progress.
Favorite Part or Fun Fact
The bones of the main women still glow in their grave today. The radium embedded in the bones of the "Radium Girls" will not stop glowing anytime soon because radium has a half-life of approximately 1,600 years. This means that it takes 1,600 years for the radioactivity of a sample of radium to reduce by half, so the glow will persist for many more centuries, if not millennia.