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The Radium Girls: Young Readers' Edition
- Author
- Kate Moore
- Narrator
- Xe Sands
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 17 May 2022
- Run Time
- 6 hours 45 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Amid the excitement of the early twentieth century, hundreds of young women spend their days hard at work painting watch dials with glow-in-the-dark radium paint. The painters consider themselves lucky—until they start suffering from a mysterious illness. As the corporations try to cover up a shocking secret, these shining girls suddenly find themselves at the center of a deadly scandal.
The Radium Girls: Young Readers Edition tells the unbelievable true story of these incredible women, whose determination to fight back saved countless lives.
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Details
- Author
- Kate Moore
- Narrator
- Xe Sands
- Duration
- 6 hours 45 minutes
- Release Date
- 17 May 2022
- ISBN
- 9798765019160
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Girls and women
Synopsis
Explore the unbelievable true story of America's glowing girls and their fight for justice in the young readers edition of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The Radium Girls.Amid the excitement of the early twentieth century, hundreds of young women spend their days hard at work painting watch dials with glow-in-the-dark radium paint. The painters consider themselves lucky—until they start suffering from a mysterious illness. As the corporations try to cover up a shocking secret, these shining girls suddenly find themselves at the center of a deadly scandal.The Radium Girls: Young Readers Edition tells the unbelievable true story of these incredible women, whose determination to fight back saved countless lives.
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