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1) Trowbridge Road

Author

Pixley, Marcella Fleischman

Series

Candlewick on BrillianceAudio

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8

Appears on these lists

S22_Golden Dome
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Nominees 2021 - 22
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Nominees: 2021-2022 Master List
VT Golden Dome Book Award 2021-2022

Formats

Book, Audio Book on PlayAway, eBook, Kindle

Description

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It's the summer of '83 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father's death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead locking herself away to scour at the germs she believes are everywhere. June Bug threatens this precarious existence by going out into the neighborhood, gradually befriending an imaginative boy who is living with his Nana Jean after experiencing...

2) Radioactive!: how Irène Curie and Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world

Author

Conkling, Winifred

Pub. Date

2016.

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG+ - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 9

Description

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The fascinating, little-known story of how two brilliant female physicists' groundbreaking discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb. In 1934, Irène Curie, working with her husband and fellow scientist, Frederic Joliot, made a discovery that would change the world: artificial radioactivity. This breakthrough allowed scientists to modify elements and create new ones by altering the structure of atoms. Curie shared a Nobel Prize with her...