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Khan, Hiba Noor

Summary: Malala Yousafzai is known across the world for having the courage to stand up for what she believes in, even in the face of terrifying adversity. From playing in the Swat Valley in Pakistan to making speeches at the United Nations, Malala's story has become an inspiration for people all over the world who are fighting for justice. Discover what it took for one incredible girl to become the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People Yousafzai

Meltzer, Brad

Summary: "A biography of Marie Curie, the physicist and chemist who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio I am Curie

Hopkinson, Deborah

Summary: "Before Marie Curie was the first woman in France to earn the highest degree in physics, before she discovered two new radioactive elements, and became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (and then the first person to win two!)— she was a little girl named Marie Sklodowska who dreamed of being a scientist—and was determined to make that dream come true."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024

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Isaacson, Walter

Summary: "When Jennifer Doudna was a sixth grader in Hilo, Hawaii, she came home from school one afternoon and found a book on her bed. It was The Double Helix, James Watson's account of how he and Francis Crick had discovered the structure of DNA, the spiral-staircase molecule that carries the genetic instruction code for all forms of life. This book guided Jennifer Doudna to focus her studies not on...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA 921 DOU

Milani, Alice

Summary: "A graphic account of a pioneering scientist who conducted innovative research on radioactivity. Marie Curie (1867-1934) was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences, and first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2019

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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 921 CUR

Rusch, Elizabeth

Summary: "Una historia real sobre un científico contemporáneo que salvó la capa de ozono y el planeta, evitando un desastre en el medioambiente. Mario Molina es un científico mexicoamericano y un héroe de nuestros días que ayudó a resolver la crisis de la capa de ozono de la década de 1980. Se crió en la Ciudad de México y desde niño sintió curiosidad por los mundos ocultos que estudiaba a través de un...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2019

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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 921 MOL

Demi.

Summary: Mainly the story of Marie Curie, also about Pierre Curie, and the discovery of radium.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CUR

Meltzer, Brad

Summary: Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of seventeen for speaking out against injustice even when it was terrifying to do so. She was an ordinary Muslim girl who wanted to attend school, and she refused to stop protesting for her rights even after being attacked by a powerful group in Pakistan who wanted women to remain in the shadows. She continues to fight for women's rights and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio I am Malala

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