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Author:Â
Moore, Kate (Writer and editor), author.
ISBN:Â
9781492649359
Summary:Â
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 ill. As the fatal poison of the radium
Pub Date:Â
2017
Call NumberÂ
363.17 MOO 2017
FormatÂ
Books
Author:Â
Moore, Kate (Writer and editor), author. Brazil, Angela (Angela Kay), narrator. Playaway Digital Audio. Findaway World, LLC.
ISBN:Â
9781509457991
Summary:Â
"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 ill. As the fatal poison of the radiu
Pub Date:Â
2017
Call NumberÂ
PAD 363.17 MOO
FormatÂ
Sound recording
Author:Â
Moore, Kate (Writer and editor), author.
ISBN:Â
9781432839031
Summary:Â
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 ill. As the fatal poison of the radi
Pub Date:Â
2017
Call NumberÂ
LP 363.17 MOO 2017
FormatÂ
Books
Author:Â
Moore, Kate (Writer and editor), author. Brazil, Angela (Angela Kay), narrator.
ISBN:Â
9781681684215
Summary:Â
In 1917, as a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks, and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorous. The girls themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered head to toe in the dust from the paint. As the years passed, the women began to suffer from mysterious and crippling illnesses. The very thing that had made them feel alive, their work, was in fact slowly killing them: they
Pub Date:Â
2017
Call NumberÂ
BCD 363.17 MOO
FormatÂ
Audio disc
Author:Â
Moore, Kate (Writer and editor), author.
ISBN:Â
9781728210346
Summary:Â
"Now adapted for young readers! The incredible true story of the young women exposed to the "wonder drug" radium and their struggle for justice"--
Pub Date:Â
2020
Call NumberÂ
J 363.17 MOO 2020
FormatÂ
Books
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