Summary of Kate Moore's The Radium Girls tells how young women won a landmark workers' compensation case against employers who hired them to work with radium. Moore traces the history of the so-called radium girls' employment, illnesses, and deaths…

As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium-dial factories, where they painted clock faces with a mysterious new substance called radium. Assured by their bosses that the luminous material was safe, the women themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered from head to toe with the glowing dust. With such a coveted job, these "shining girls" were considered the luckiest alive--until they began to fall mysteriously...

"Now adapted for young readers! The incredible true story of the young women exposed to the "wonder drug" radium and their struggle for justice"--